PORT TOWNSEND — A Securities and Exchange Commission
investigation of trading and security practices by Intellicheck
Mobilisa will not affect the day-today operations of the high-tech
ID-verification and wireless security company based in Port

Townsend, the company’s president and CEO said Tuesday.
“The company itself is not
under investigation,” Nelson Ludlow said.
“There were some questions
about trades, and we asked the
SEC to step in.
“We are cooperating with them
and giving them whatever they
need.”

Mobilisa cofounder Ludlow took over
as CEO from
Steve
Williams following the company’s Nov. 8
financial
report
in
which it dis- Ludlow
closed that it
lost $381,296 on revenue of
$2.1 million for the quarter ended
Sept. 30.
Williams succeeded Ludlow as
president and CEO of Intellicheck

Mobilisa, based at 191 Otto St., in
April 2011.
Ludlow said Tuesday that he
has been advised by attorneys not
to discuss specifics of the case,
including any possible relationship between the SEC probe and
Williams’ departure.

Disappointed stockholders
During a Nov. 8 conference call
when the losses were announced,
several stockholders expressed
disappointment with the company, specifically its stock transactions, which come under the

purview of the SEC.
Stockholder Sandra Haines
questioned Williams specifically
about the sale of nearly 200,000
shares for more than $350,000
and that he exercised the options
at about $100,000.
“That means you took a profit
of about a quarter of a million dollars,” she said.
“My real complaint is you did
this only six days before the end
of the quarter, and you tell us
today that this is a terrible quarter. ”
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PORT TOWNSEND —
Departing U.S. Rep. Norm
Dicks built his reputation as
an advocate of local infrastructure projects, and his successor
indicated that he wants to continue that tradition.
“It’s not always the most
exciting topic, but infrastructure really does matter when
you are talking about the ability for private-sector job
growth,” said Derek Kilmer, a
professional economist who
will be sworn in as Dicks’ successor Jan. 3.

“It can be a real differencemaker as to whether a project
moves forward or doesn’t move
forward, or whether private
business decides to make an
investment or not,” he told Jefferson County commissioners
Monday.
At his first official North
Olympic Peninsula meetings
with a government agency
since his election Nov. 6, Rep.elect Kilmer, D-Gig Harbor,

BY SANDI DOUGHTON
THE SEATTLE TIMES

It’s not news to Northwesterners
that most of the giant firs and cedars
that once dominated the region’s
forests are long gone, felled by
decades of logging.
But a review of ecosystems
around the world finds that big trees
are vanishing almost everywhere —
and aren’t being replaced.
“What we’re seeing is a global
phenomenon,” said ecologist David

Lindenmayer of Australian National
University, lead author of a paper
published in last Friday’s edition of
the journal Science.
“There are different sets of drivers — it might be fire, logging,
drought, disease — but they all lead
to basically the same outcome.”

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Kilmer is assembling his
local office staff, which he
promised “will provide strong
access for every family and
every business in this district.”
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Birds, reptiles, mammals
The loss of big, old trees can be
devastating to thousands of other
species that take shelter in their
branches, said University of Washington forestry professor Jerry
Franklin, a co-author of the paper.
In some forests, nearly a third of
all birds, reptiles, mammals or marsupials make their homes in ancient
trees, the scientists said.

Assembling staff

Tides, repairs
snarling more
ferry routes

Loss of big trees
now global issue
As old forests
disappear, many
species do, too

and a native of Port Angeles,
spent about an hour with the
Jefferson commissioners.
Updates on two big projects
on the east and west sides of
the county — sewers for the
Port Hadlock area and renovation of Hoh River Road — dominated that meeting.
Afterwards, Kilmer met
with supporters at the Cotton
Building in Port Townsend.
“Economic development
happens on the ground in local
communities,” Kilmer said
after meeting with the commissioners.
“My role as a member of
Congress and my staff’s role
will be very much focused on
meeting with local businesses
and determining how we can
help them lay the foundation
for job growth.”

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Mexico tests
DNA from
plane crash
MEXICAN AUTHORITIES WERE performing
DNA tests Tuesday on
remains believed to belong
to Mexican-American
music superstar Jenni
Rivera and six other people killed when her plane
went down in northern
Mexico.
Investigators said
it would
take days to
piece
together the
wreckage of
the plane
carrying
Rivera
Rivera and
find out why it went down.
Authorities, meanwhile,
began looking into the history of the plane’s owner,
Starwood Management of
Las Vegas.
Another of its planes
was seized in September by

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NONSMOKING SANTA
A new version of ’Twas the Night
Before Christmas, by Clement C.
Moore, has eliminated all references
to a smoking Santa.
the U.S. Drug Enforcement
Administration in McAllen,
Texas.
The U.S. National
Transportation Safety
Board said it was sending
a team to help investigate

the crash of the Learjet
25, which disintegrated
}on impact Sunday with
seven people aboard in
rugged terrain in Nuevo
Leon state in northern
Mexico.

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Passings
By The Associated Press

GALINA VISHNEVSKAYA, 86, a Russian opera
diva who conquered audiences all over the world
with her rich soprano voice,
has died.
Ms.
Vishnevskaya was
the widow of
famed cellist
Mstislav
Rostropovich.
Moscow’s Ms.
Opera Cen- Vishnevskaya
ter, which
in 2007
Ms. Vishnevskaya created, said the
singer died Tuesday in Moscow. It didn’t give the cause.
Ms. Vishnevskaya joined
Moscow’s Bolshoi Theater in
1952, making her debut as
Tatiana in “Yevgeny Onegin.”
She performed dozens of
soprano roles in Russian
and European opera classics.
She made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Aida in
1961 and first sang Liu in
“Turandot” in La Scala
opera house in Milan, Italy,
in 1964.
From 1955 and until his
death in 2007, Ms. Vishnevskaya was married to
Rostropovich.
They frequently performed together and used
their star status in the
Soviet Union to help friends

Yes
in trouble, including writer
Alexander Solzhenitsyn,
whom they sheltered at
their dacha when he was
facing official reprisals.
After Solzhenitsyn was
expelled from the country,
Ms. Vishnevskaya and
Rostropovich left the Soviet
Union with their two
daughters in 1974. They
lived in Paris and then
Washington, D.C., and were
stripped of their Soviet citizenship in 1978.
They returned to Russia
after the Soviet collapse and
became involved in public
activities and charitable
work.

_________
KAREL VAS, 96, a prosecutor who came to symbolize unlawful trials during
the post-1948 communist
takeover of Czechoslovakia,
has died, a government
institute said Monday.
The Institute for the
Study of Totalitarian
Regimes announced Mr. Vas’
death but gave no details.
Czech public television
reported that Mr. Vas died
Saturday in a home for
retirees in Prague, where he
had lived.
During World War II, Mr.
Vas began to collaborate
with Soviet dictator Josef
Stalin’s much-feared secret
police, known as NKVD.

Historians said Mr. Vas
one of the state prosecutors
who played a key role in
show trials that used fabricated evidence to hand out
death sentences to opponents of the communist
regime in Czechoslovakia.
In 2001, Mr. Vas was sentenced to seven years in
prison for his role in the
case of a leading anti-Nazi
fighter, Gen. Heliodor Pika,
who was executed in 1949.
Mr. Vas was accused of
inserting a fake document
into Pika’s file that served
as evidence that he worked
for British intelligence.
But he escaped prison
time because an appeals
court canceled the verdict
due to the statute of limitations.

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Setting it Straight
Corrections and clarifications

■ The last name of Harry Vossenas, who with Carlyle
Bishop received Jefferson County’s first same-sex marriage license, was misspelled in reports on Page A1 of the
Friday and Monday editions.

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Peninsula Lookback
From the pages of the PENINSULA DAILY NEWS

1937 (75 years ago)

1962 (50 years ago)

Clallam County sold 24
How salmon poachers
parcels of land in an oral
allegedly operated a “tip
off” system to warn boats of auction in the courthouse
the approach of officers and lobby.
The land includes acrefired shots at a state fisheries patrol boat on the Hoko age and lots in Port Angeles
as well as a mining claim in
River was related by E.M.
Benn, state fisheries inspec- the Lake Crescent area.
Auctioned was onetor.
Benn reported the arrest quarter interest in the
Peggy M. and Fairholme
of a West End man who
Lode Claim and threefaces charges for allegedly
quarters interest in the
acting as a paid lookout on
Soleduck Mining Claim.
shore
for
purse
seiners
Seen Around
Land between the
operating illegally at the
Peninsula snapshots
Elwha River and the Clalmouth
of
the
Hoko.
Laugh Lines
lam County Airport known
A system of flashlight
FOUR GERMAN
signals from shore was used as the Sea View Addition
SHEPHERD puppies folTHE PENTAGON IS
was auctioned for tax liens
to warn seiners of
lowing
their
dad
home
preparing for massive budon it stemming from the
approaching officers or to
after all five chased a
get cuts in the event that
1950s.
notify
them
that
“the
coast
school
bus
in
Sequim
.
.
.
the country does go over
was clear,” Benn said.
the “fiscal cliff.”
1987 (25 years ago)
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A volley of shots was
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fired
at
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jailed for contempt of court
— won’t have to take the
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has been convicted in Jefferson County District
Court, her testimony won’t
be needed when he’s tried
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an incident in which he
threatened to “blow up the
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children inside.

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From the files of The Associated Press

TODAY IS WEDNESDAY,
Dec. 12, the 347th day of 2012.
There are 19 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
■ On Dec. 12, 2000, George W.
Bush was transformed into the
president-elect as a divided U.S.
Supreme Court reversed a state
court decision for recounts in Florida’s contested election.
On this date:
■ In 1787, Pennsylvania
became the second state to ratify
the U.S. Constitution.
■ In 1870, Joseph H. Rainey of
South Carolina became the first
black lawmaker sworn into the
U.S. House of Representatives.
■ In 1897, “The Katzenjam-

mer Kids,” the pioneering comic
strip created by Rudolph Dirks,
made its debut in the New York
Journal.
■ In 1906, President Theodore
Roosevelt nominated Oscar Straus
to be secretary of commerce and
labor; Straus became the first Jewish Cabinet member.
■ In 1911, Britain’s King
George V announced during a visit
to India that the capital would be
transferred from Calcutta to Delhi.
■ In 1917, Father Edward Flanagan founded Boys Town outside
Omaha, Neb.
■ In 1925, the first motel —
the Motel Inn — opened in San
Luis Obispo, Calif.
■ In 1937, Japanese aircraft

sank the U.S. gunboat Panay on
China’s Yangtze River. Japan apologized and paid $2.2 million in
reparations.
■ In 1946, a United Nations
committee voted to accept a sixblock tract of Manhattan real
estate in New York City offered as
a gift by John D. Rockefeller Jr. to
be the site of the U.N.’s headquarters.
■ In 1963, Kenya gained its
independence from Britain.
■ In 1972, Irwin Allen’s allstar disaster movie “The Poseidon
Adventure” was released.
■ In 1985, 248 American soldiers and eight crew members
were killed when an Arrow Air
charter crashed after takeoff from

Gander, Newfoundland.
■ Ten years ago: President
George W. Bush publicly rebuked
Senate Republican leader Trent
Lott for his statement that
appeared to embrace half-centuryold segregationist politics, calling
it “offensive” and “wrong.”
■ Five years ago: President
George W. Bush vetoed a second
bill that would have expanded government-provided health insurance for children.
■ One year ago: President
Barack Obama met at the White
House with Iraqi Prime Minister
Nouri al-Maliki; afterward, the
president declared that U.S. troops
were leaving Iraq “with honor and
with their heads held high.”

PENINSULA DAILY NEWS for Wednesday, December 12, 2012
PAGE

A3
Briefly: Nation
Zimmerman
must remain
under 24-hour
GPS monitoring while
awaiting trial
in the fatal
MOBILE, Ala. — Two Alashooting of
bama men who allegedly
Florida teenwanted to wage violent jihad
ager Trayvon
Zimmerman
overseas have been arrested in
Martin and
Georgia on terrorism charges,
must stay in the county despite
federal authorities said Tuesday. the defense’s concerns about his
Mohammad Abdul Rahman
safety, a judge ruled Tuesday.
Abukhdair and Randy
Nelson, without explanation,
“Rasheed” Wilson, both 25 and
denied the lawyer’s request for
from Mobile, were named in ter- modification of the bond terms.
rorism charges filed Monday,
Zimmerman is charged with
according to Kenyen R. Brown,
second-degree murder in the
the U.S. attorney for the South- killing of 17-year-old Martin folern District of Alabama.
lowing an altercation in Sanford
Prosecutors said Abukhdair
in February.
was arrested at a bus terminal
He has pleaded not guilty,
in Augusta, Ga., and Wilson was claiming self-defense under
stopped in Atlanta while trying Florida’s “stand your ground”
to board a flight for Morocco.
law.
An FBI agent said Wilson is
a close friend and former room- Gas line explodes
mate of Alabama native Omar
SISSONVILLE, W.Va. —
Hammami, who was recently
West Virginia State Police said
added to the list of the FBI’s
a gas pipeline explosion left sevmost-wanted terror suspects.
Authorities said the men are eral structures on fire and shut
charged with conspiring to pro- about a mile of Interstate 77 in
vide material support to terror- both directions near Sissonville.
Sgt. Michael Baylous said it
ists with plans to kill people
wasn’t yet known whether anyoutside the United States.
one was hurt.
Hammami, son of a ChrisThe explosion occurred at
tian mother and Islamic father,
around
12:40 p.m. Tuesday.
grew up near Mobile and
Firefighters and other first
attended the University of
South Alabama. Officials believe responders rushed to the scene.
Kanawha County emergency
he is now a senior leader in the
officials said crews were workSomalia-based al-Shabab, which
ing to shut off the pipeline.
has links to al-Qaida.
Sissonville is about 15 miles
north of the state capital of
Suspect monitored
Charleston.
The Associated Press
SANFORD, Fla. — George

2 Alabama men
face charges
of terrorism

Briefly: World
Junta forces
prime minister
of Mali to leave
BAMAKO, Mali — Soldiers
arrested Mali’s prime minister
and forced him to resign before
dawn Tuesday, showing that the
military remains the real power
in this troubled West African
nation despite handing back
authority to civilians after a
coup in March.
The prime
minister’s
ouster comes
as the United
Nations considers backing
a military
intervention
in Mali, a
once-stable
Diarra
country now
beset by violence from Islamic
extremists.
Prime Minister Cheikh Modibo Diarra, dressed in a dark
suit and his forehead glistening
with sweat, appeared on state
television at 4 a.m. to announce
his resignation, hours after soldiers stormed his house.
Diarra, 60, is an astrophysicist who led NASA’s Mars exploration education program. He is
now under house arrest, said a
spokesman for the junta,
Bakary Mariko.

Egyptian boycott
CAIRO — Egypt’s judges
Tuesday said that most of them
would not oversee a nationwide

referendum on a contentious
draft constitution, as tens of
thousands of opponents and
supporters of the country’s
Islamist president staged rival
rallies in Cairo, four days ahead
of the vote.
The demonstrations and boycott came after masked assailants set upon opposition protesters staging a sit-in at Tahrir
Square, firing birdshot and
swinging knives and sticks,
according to security officials.
They later said that five “hardened criminals” were arrested.
Eleven protesters were
reportedly injured.

Mandela lung infection
JOHANNESBURG — After
three days of silence on the illness of national icon Nelson
Mandela, President Jacob
Zuma’s office issued a statement Tuesday announcing that
the anti-apartheid hero and
Nobel Peace Prize winner is suffering from a lung infection.
Mandela’s hospitalization
Saturday caused national
alarm. Zuma’s office said Monday that the former president is
“in good hands.”
On Tuesday, presidential
spokesman Mac Maharaj said
new tests indicated that the
94-year-old Mandela was suffering from a recurrence of a previous lung infection.
Anxiety rose late Monday
after Mandela’s wife, Graca
Machel, was reported as telling
a local television station that it
was painful to watch her husband’s health deteriorate.
The Associated Press

HOOKSETT, N.H. — Five
hundred miles from Washington,
D.C., the lunch crowd at Robie’s
Country Store and Deli was filled
with angst over America’s elected
leaders and their latest struggle
to prevent a fiscal crisis.
“I don’t know if I know all the
ins and outs,” said Kimberlee
Roux of Manchester as she waited
for her lunch order.

‘More serious’
“But I think this one’s more
serious than the others,” she said.
Indeed, unless Congress acts by
year’s end, the nation will fall off a
“fiscal cliff,” triggering tax increases
for most Americans and spending
cuts that economists warn could
lead to another recession.
Roux, a 50-year-old accountant, worries that spending cuts
may affect her disabled brother’s
benefits.
From New Hampshire diners
to Colorado coffeeshops, weary
residents share Roux’s concerns.
The scene playing out on Capitol Hill is a familiar one as lawmakers with competing ideologies
wage an eleventh-hour battle to
avert another predictable crisis.
This one comes just a year
after an equally divided Washington nearly let the country default

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Ky., right, talks
about a “fiscal cliff” strategy session. From left are Sen.
John Barrasso, R-Wyo., and Sen. John Thune, R-S.D.
on its loan obligations — a debtceiling debate that led to a drop in
the nation’s credit rating.
A recent Associated Press-GfK
poll found that 74 percent of
Americans disapprove of the way
Congress is handling its job; just
23 percent approve.
In a campaign-style event this
week in Michigan, Obama warned
that he “won’t compromise” on his
demand that the wealthiest
Americans pay more in taxes.
Polls find that most voters
agree with the president’s deficitcutting plan to raise tax rates on

income over $200,000 for individuals and $250,000 for couples,
although House Republicans are
reluctant to agree.
The conservative group Crossroads GPS is running television
ads across the country describing
Obama’s solution as “a huge tax
increase” with “no real spending
reforms.”
“Call President Obama and
tell him it’s time to show us a balanced plan,” the ad says.
Most voters interviewed in
recent days seem willing to raise
taxes on the wealthy so long as
the middle class is protected.

WASHINGTON — Interior
Secretary Ken Salazar endorsed a
plan Tuesday to remove a disputed inscription from the Martin
Luther King Jr. Memorial, rather
than cut into the granite to
replace it with a fuller quotation.
Salazar said he had reached
an agreement with King’s family,
the group that built the memorial
and the National Park Service to
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
remove a paraphrase from King’s
“Drum Major” speech by carving The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington, D.C, is
grooves over the lettering to shown this year. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar OK’d a
match existing scratch marks in plan to carve over a disputed inscription on the granite.
the sculpture.
The full quotation was taken
“I am proud that all parties
Sculptor recommendation
from a 1968 sermon two months have come together on a resolution that will help ensure the
Memorial sculptor Lei Yixin before King was assassinated.
It reads:
structural integrity of this timerecommended removing the
“Yes, if you want to say that I less and powerful monument to
inscription this way to avoid
harming the monument’s struc- was a drum major, say that I was Dr. King’s life and legacy,” Salazar
a drum major for justice. Say that said.
tural integrity.
Work is scheduled to begin
Critics including poet Maya I was a drum major for peace. I
Angelou complained after the was a drum major for righteous- after the presidential inauguramemorial opened in 2011 that the ness. And all of the other shallow tion in February or March of 2013
to be completed in the spring,
paraphrased quotation took things will not matter.”
In a statement, Salazar according to federal officials.
King’s words out of context, makexplained the resolution of the
Lei, the original sculptor, will
ing him sound arrogant.
The paraphrase reads: “I was a long disagreement over the perform the stone work to remove
drum major for justice, peace and inscription and how it should be the inscription, and the memorial
righteousness.”
will remain open to visitors.
repaired.

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AT LEAST TWO people were killed
and many others were wounded at a
Portland, Ore.-area mall by a man armed
with a semiautomatic rifle.
Clackamas County sheriff’s Sgt.
James Rhodes said the shooter at
Clackamas Town Center had been “neutralized.” When pressed on whether that
meant the gunman had been shot or
arrested, Rhodes said he did not have
that information.
Rhodes said there are multiple
wounded and there are confirmed dead,
but he gave no numbers.
Emergency dispatchers received
reports that a shooting had occurred
near a Macy’s store at the mall.

THE UNIVERSITY OF Virginia was
put on warning Tuesday by an accrediting panel that found indications the
school broke governance rules in a failed
attempt to oust the prestigious public
school’s president this summer.
The Southern Association of Colleges
and Schools’ Commission on Colleges
will further study whether U.Va. was out
of compliance with two of the association’s rules, commission President Belle
Wheelan said.
Wheelan’s group began looking at the
actions of the school’s governing board
after the intense media coverage of the
attempted ouster of President Teresa
Sullivan.

DELTA AIR LINES said it will buy
almost half of Virgin Atlantic for $360 million as it tries to catch rivals in the lucrative New York-to-London travel market.
Delta said it plans to form a joint venture with Virgin Atlantic so they can sell
seats on each other’s flights, share the
costs and profits, and set the flight
schedules in ways that help both airlines.
American Airlines has a similar deal
with British Airways.
Delta is aiming to have the joint operation running by the end of 2013.
The deal won’t add flights. But travelers would be able to buy one ticket from,
say, Lansing, Mich., on Delta and connect
in New York to a Virgin flight to London.

A STOMACH VIRUS forced Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to
put off by one day an overseas trip that
will focus on providing more support for
the Syrian opposition.
The State Department said Clinton’s
illness forced her to move her flight to
Morocco from Monday to Tuesday.
The Obama administration is
expected to recognize the opposition’s
new leadership council as the sole legitimate representative of the Syrian people.
Clinton is likely to announce that step
today to the Friends of Syria group.
Clinton also will meet with Moroccan
King Mohammed VI to discuss the rise
of al-Qaida-linked extremists in Mali.

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Water in Port Angeles Harbor
rises high upon the pilings below
Port Angeles City Pier on Tuesday,
the result of a low-pressure weather
system moving across the region
combined with an astronomical
high tide.
The National Weather Service
office in Seattle originally had
issued coastal flood watches for
most of the Strait of Juan de Fuca
and Puget Sound through Tuesday
afternoon, but the tidal anomaly
remained below the criteria for
flooding, and the watch later was
canceled.
For the five-day weather forecast,
see Page B12.

PORT ANGELES —
Geographic isolation and a
lack of job opportunities for
the “trailing spouse” are
among the challenges faced
by North Olympic Peninsula recruiters, a panel of
employment experts told a
Port Angeles business audience.
With many people locked
into an upside-down mortgage, it can be difficult to
attract top professionals to
a rural county like Clallam.
“Let’s face it: There’s not
a real active nightlife here,
and a lot of young grads are

not willing to leave that
behind,” said Cathy Price,
human resources manager
for Nippon Paper Industries USA Inc. mill in Port
Angeles, during a panel discussion at Monday’s Port
Angeles Regional Chamber
of Commerce luncheon.
“Also, distance from the
I-5 corridor seems to be a
concern to a lot of folks. We
get a lot of positive energy
from people who have come
from a similar small-town
environment as opposed to
the big city, who are outdoor
people.
“We do have a lot to offer,
but it’s got to be the right

kind of person that wants
that kind of environment.”
Olympic Medical Center
Human Resources Director
Richard Newman said the
public hospital district
spends 61 percent of its
budget on wages and benefits, considerably more than
its counterparts on Puget
Sound.

Higher expenditure
“Being in a geographically separated area, it’s a
little different for prices
and cost of staffing,” Newman told about 60 chamber
members at the Port Angeles Red Lion Hotel.
“A lot of hospitals in the
I-5 corridor have staffing
agencies they can call on
quickly. We aren’t able to do
that. So at times, we have

extra staff because our census fluctuates quite a bit.”
With 1,100 employees,
OMC is the region’s largest
employer.
“A problem that we often
have, and some of you
might, is the trailing
spouse,” Newman added.
“We often have a great
physician to offer [a job],
but the trailing spouse
really would like to do more
than garden or hike.”
Chamber
Executive
Director Russ Veenema
agreed.
“Pretty much every
employer that I’ve talked
with, the trailing spouse is
an issue,” Veenema said.
“Maybe we as a community can do a better job connecting people.”
Invariably, prospective
employees will ask about

“Maybe we as a
community can do a
better job connecting
people.”
RUSS VEENEMA
chamber executive director
the schools and the quality
of health care in the region,
which works to OMC’s
advantage.
“Luckily we have, I
think, good health care,”
Newman said.
“I think we have good
school systems, so it’s an
easy thing to talk to them
about.”
Jon Toliver of Morningside, an Olympia-based
nonprofit with offices in
Clallam, Grays Harbor,
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and transition services for
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“Many individuals with
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Trained talent
But a lack of specialized
training and small population base force OMC and
Nippon to look elsewhere
for skilled work.
“Most of the professionals that we need at Nippon
Paper Industries USA are
not available in the local
area,” Price said.
“Most of those are various engineers, project engineers, mechanical engineers, electrical engineers
— and they’re all in demand
nationally. Currently, the
U.S. isn’t
graduating
enough engineers, so we
recruit those on a nationwide basis.”
Nippon
recently
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screening process, which
led to an improvement in
the quality of applicants,
Price said.
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labor and some of the
skilled crafts at the local
level,” she said.
“We do have openings,
and the ones we are having
trouble filling are those professionals that don’t really
exist at the local level.”
Price said local workers
currently are being trained
to work at Nippon’s biomass cogeneration facility.
The $71 million biomass
expansion project is on
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Goldieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always demonstrated himself a dream
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Sugar took off running for
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ear with
Karen
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a look of
that the other two ponies
Griffiths
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of his lightning-quick ability
to scoot out from under his
young rider, thus leaving a
scared, crying youngster on
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After Brooke gained confidence on Sugar, she quickly
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to be an adventurer like the
fictional movie character
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Frequently, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d see him in
the backyard, dressed in his
Indiana Jones hat and outfit, riding Sugar on some
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Ferries: Service
CONTINUED FROM A1

PT ferry
times

The smaller replacement
boats canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t always carry the
load, so a passenger-only
ferry is being used this
week to help on the SeattleBremerton
run.
The
Fauntleroy-Vashon-Southworth run has dropped
from three ferries to two.

LOW TIDES ON
the route between
Port Townsend and
Coupeville will
change ferry times
today and the balance of this week.
Canceled today
are Port Townsend
departures at
5:15 a.m., 6:45 a.m.
and 8:30 a.m., with
replacement departures scheduled
for 7:45 a.m. and
9:05 a.m.
Departures from
the Keystone landing
near Coupeville also
are canceled today,
with two replacement
runs scheduled.
Some Port
Townsend runs also
are canceled Thursday, Friday and Saturday because of
tidal actions. The full
schedule can be
found at http://
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Jefferson County Public Works employee Joel Peterson, far right, gives a presentation about the
proposed Port Hadlock sewer system as Rep.-elect Derek Kilmer, left, his district director Meadow
Johnson and Jefferson County Commissioner Phil Johnson listen and take notes.

Kilmer: Field office site unknown
CONTINUED FROM A1 finished construction documents by the end of 2013.
Peterson said he is hopHe did not say where, if
any, field offices will be ing to narrow the $23 millocated in the 6th District, lion gap through applicawhich sprawls across the tions to the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Public
Olympic Peninsula and Works Trust Fund and with
extends through Kitsap other capital requests â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
but federal help also is
County into Tacoma.
The North Olympic Pen- needed.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;The key is to get as
insula field office for Dicks
in Port Angeles closes at the much grant funding as possible so we can lower the
end of the month.
On Monday, county proj- overall cost for the customect planner Joel Peterson ers connecting to the sysbriefed Kilmer on the Port tem,â&#x20AC;? he said.
Kilmer said he underHadlock sewer project,
which he said is essential to stood the predicament as
the economic development Gig Harbor, where he lives,
had to expand its capacity.
of East Jefferson County.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a huge deal when a
sewer system is at capacity,â&#x20AC;?
Sewer service
he said.
Peterson said the lack of
â&#x20AC;&#x153;You have three options:
sewer service restricts Tri- to declare a building moraArea growth, particularly torium, get funding to
the ability to provide afford- expand the capacity or ask
able housing.
people to stop flushing.â&#x20AC;?
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Habitat for Humanity
Kilmer promised his
is quite active in Port support for the Hadlock
Townsend and Quilcene, project.
but they have been unable
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a shame that sewers
to expand into Port Hadlock arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t cheap, but they are
until we have an adequate important projects that
sewer system,â&#x20AC;? Peterson have a lot of value for the
said.
economy and the environâ&#x20AC;&#x153;There are opportunities ment,â&#x20AC;? he said.
for affordable housing that
â&#x20AC;&#x153;You can consider me a
are not met because we are partner. I am happy to look
all on septic systems.â&#x20AC;?
under every rock I can.â&#x20AC;?
Peterson said the sewer
Kilmer also heard a prewould cost $37 million to sentation from county
construct; $14 million is transportation
planner
acquired to date.
Josh Peters about the Hoh
He said the county has River access road that proused the money for final vides the sole access from
design and expects to have U.S. Highway 101 to the

Hoh Rain Forest in Olympic
National Park.
The county is charged
with the maintenance of 12
miles of road that leads into
the national park.
The stretch habitually is
plagued by washouts that
the county canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t afford to
repair continuously, Peters
said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Hoh Rain Forest is
a unique place, right up
there with Hurricane Ridge,
Crescent Lake and Ocean
Shores,â&#x20AC;? Peters said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;We used to have the
money to do an immediate
repair and keep the road
open, but we no longer have
the resources or the cash
flow to make those repairs.â&#x20AC;?

relief funds, which would
guarantee reimbursement
in times of disaster.
The application for the
program is due Jan. 25, and
Kilmer promised that he
would write a letter of support even if he had to do so
on hotel stationery.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sworn in on the 3rd
[of January], so I should
have letterhead by the
25th,â&#x20AC;? he smiled.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll work something
out.â&#x20AC;?
Kilmer, a former state
legislator, suggested that
the county seek state funds
that might be available for
culvert repair or to repair
roads that are necessary for
economic development.

Seeking support

â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Ports in the stormâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;

Peters said the county is
seeking federal support in
the form of emergency
funds to keep the road open,
stating that doing so benefits the state, the economy
and the tourist trade.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is one of the only
places that you can see a
true old-growth rain forest
and get an idea of how
things used to be,â&#x20AC;? said
County
Commissioner
David Sullivan.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;You can get a view of
what the real normal is
instead of seeing an oldgrowth forest that has been
logged.â&#x20AC;?
The county is seeking
Kilmerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s support in an
application for emergency

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Your need is substantial
enough that you may be
looking for as many ports in
the storm as you can find,â&#x20AC;?
he said.
As of Tuesday, Kilmer
didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have an official meeting scheduled with Clallam
County
commissioners,
though he met socially with
Commissioner
Mike
Doherty on Tuesday night,
Doherty said.

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Jefferson County Reporter Charlie Bermant can be reached at 360385-2335 or at charlie.bermant@
peninsuladailynews.com.
PDN reporters Rob Ollikainen
and Paul Gottlieb contributed to
this report.

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ite Falls.
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Daily
Herald
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Office also is investigating
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maybe is a little bit of
insider information, and
why did you dump your
stock like this?â&#x20AC;?
Williams
in
the
recorded
conference
c a l l
answered
that he sold
shares
to
cover
his Williams
s t o c k
options.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;My selling the stock
wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a taking of profit; it
actually was the acquisition
of additional shares,â&#x20AC;? Williams said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I had expiring options,
so I in fact paid the company
for my shares.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;My share position is
actually higher now than
what I had previously.â&#x20AC;?
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selling of stock.
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eight years. You have underperformed every single

â&#x20AC;&#x153;All of you are just
selling stock, and we
shareholders are
stuck.â&#x20AC;?
DAVID RICH
investor
quarter,â&#x20AC;? he said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;All of you are just selling
stock, and we shareholders
are stuck. And this report
tells us that this stock is
going to zero unless you
guys get on the stick.â&#x20AC;?
Ludlow would not comment as to whether Williamsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; trades were related to
the SEC inquiry.
He said he could not
speculate about the length
of the SEC investigation but
said he expected a positive
outcome for the company.
In a written statement,
the company stated that it
â&#x20AC;&#x153;takes all securities laws
and SEC regulations very
seriously and is cooperating
with the SECâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s inquiry.â&#x20AC;?

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A lot of the adjustments
were called in by David
Moseley, who as assistant
transportation secretary is
in charge of State Ferries,
during his visit to Port
Townsend on Monday.
He met with ferry commuters after speaking at
the noontime Jefferson
County Chamber of Commerce luncheon.
Moseley said his team
scrambled to make this
weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s adjustments.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;From what we learned
this morning, obviously our
customers were impacted,â&#x20AC;?
he said late Monday.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;But the services seemed
to operate OK. The Salish
[out of Bremerton] is slower
so we were not able to maintain our schedule on the
Bremerton run.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;But given all things
considered, I think today,
this morning, went about as
well as can be expected.â&#x20AC;?
The biggest issue was
with the MV Sealth. A routine inspection Friday spotted a leaky weld in the hull.
The MV Klahowya also
was pulled from service
after a link between the
engine and generator broke
Saturday night.
The new repairs come as
cancellations pile up this
year thanks, in part, to a
steep increase in ferry

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A7

(J) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2012

Clallam OKs budget with no new layoffs
County Administrator
Jim Jones presented the
budget in two public hearings Dec. 4. No public testimony was given in either
hearing.
The 2013 budget is the
result of union negotiations
that took place in late 2011.
Employees agreed to
nearly $1.8 million in wage
concessions in both 2012
and 2013 in exchange for no
layoffs.

BY ROB OLLIKAINEN
PENINSULA DAILY NEWS

PORT ANGELES â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
Clallam
County
has
adopted a $31.3 million
budget for 2013 that
includes 16 furlough days
for most workers but no
new layoffs at the courthouse.
The three commissioners approved the balanced
budget â&#x20AC;&#x201D; which sports a
surplus of more than
$300,000 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; by unanimous
vote Tuesday.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is a reflection of a
lot of hard work by a lot of
people, everyone who oversees their departments and
all the elected officials
working through the process for six months,â&#x20AC;? Commissioner Mike Chapman
said.

Furlough days
The concessions include
an additional 16 unpaid
furlough days, during which
time most offices in the
courthouse will be closed.
Like this year, all of the
furlough days will occur on
a Monday.
Clallam County cut

spending from $31.2 million
in 2012 to $30.9 million in
the 2013 general fund for a
projected
surplus
of
$345,227.
The budget preserves a
$10.1 million reserve.
The county has laid off
or not hired back the equivalent of 32.72 full-time
workers since 2009. It
enters the new year with a
380-member workforce.
Jones wrote in his budget summary that the weak
economy continues to hold
back revenues.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Losses in revenue are
mostly the result of cuts
from the state in grants and
contracts for services from
last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s budget, together
with a significant reduction
expected in fines and forfeits as traffic ticket collections continue to reduce,â&#x20AC;?

he wrote.
The 2013 budget adds
two part-time security officers for the courts. A security committee recommended the enhanced coverage after a Grays Harbor
County
deputy
was
attacked at the courthouse
in Montesano earlier this
year.

Economic engine
The budget has $1 million in one-time revenue
from the transfer of real
estate excise taxes from
capital projects to the general fund.
Every year, Jones notes
the countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s net effect as an
economic engine in his budget summaries.
In 2013, the county will
take $28.4 million out of the

local economy from taxes,
licences, permits, fines and
fees.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;At the same time, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re
putting back into the local
economy $58.8 million in
this budget in the form of
$22.3 million worth of salaries, $22.3 million worth of
services that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re contracting out to people to do services for us and $14.2 million of actual capital construction projects that we
have planned in this budget,â&#x20AC;? Jones said in the second budget hearing last
week.
The net effect is a gain of
$30.4 million for the economy.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an important
thing that people donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t realize,â&#x20AC;? Jones said.
Chapman
thanked
Jones, Budget Director Kay

Stevens and â&#x20AC;&#x153;all the department heads for shepherding
us through this process to
get to a balanced budget
once again.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;It continues to reflect
the countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s spending priorities, our budgetary process and the good work of
the entire county leadership team,â&#x20AC;? he said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;That leadership team
for the budget starts from
the newest employee on up
to the Board of Commissioners.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a budget we can be
proud of.â&#x20AC;?
The Clallam County
budget can be reviewed at
www.clallam.net.

________
Reporter Rob Ollikainen can be
reached at 360-452-2345, ext.
5072, or at rollikainen@peninsula
dailynews.com.

Trees: Some slow-growing giants could be lost
beaterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s opossum, a 4-inch,
big-eyed marsupial that can
only nest in ash trees at
least 200 years old.
Unless the country takes
steps to protect the ancient
ash trees, the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tallest
flowering plants, the opossum is headed for extinction, he said.
In the Pacific Northwest,
legal wrangling over the
old-growth-dependent owl
led the federal government
to restrict logging on millions of acres of federal forest in Washington and Oregon.
During the debate,
Franklin proposed a more
eco-friendly alternative to
clearcutting that leaves
some trees standing.

CONTINUED FROM A1
Gnarled, old trees also
produce a bounty of seeds to
replenish the forests and
are a vital source of food.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;These big, old trees are
really important elements
of many forests and many
landscapes,â&#x20AC;? said Franklin,
who was a key player in the
1990s-era battle to protect
the remnants of the Pacific
Northwestâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s famed oldgrowth forests.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;An old tree tends to be
very idiosyncratic, just like
we are as human beings.â&#x20AC;?
Although the causes for
the decline are diverse, all
involve the common denominator of human intervention.
PENINSULA DAILY NEWS

Logging elsewhere

The trees in the Hoh Rain Forest are famed for their height.

In Scandinavia, logging
companies are simply targeting the biggest, oldest
trees, the researchers found.
On the savannas of
Northern Australia, nonnative grasses planted to
improve cattle and sheep
grazing burn seven times
hotter than native grass,
decimating trees that
weathered centuries of normal fire.
If the rate of loss doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
abate, all of the trees in the
Australian region â&#x20AC;&#x201D; both
old and young â&#x20AC;&#x201D; will be
gone in 50 years, Linden-

mayer said.
In Brazil, where rain forests have been reduced to
fragments, old trees are
much more vulnerable to
being toppled by wind and
parasitized by strangler
vines that proliferate after
logging.
Many forest ecosystems
are so altered by invasive
species, human management and shifting climate
that young trees no longer
are able to grow into behemoths, the scientists said.
Infestations of a plant

called lantana smother
seedlings in some parts of
India, Lindenmayer said.
In the mountain-ash forests of Southern Australia,
where heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worked for
nearly three decades, cycles
of fire followed by salvage
logging prevent forests from
maturing.

Shifting mindset
Forestry experts have
long been aware of the
decline of big trees, said
Oregon State University

professor Mark Harmon,
who was not involved in the
analysis.
But the Science paper is
one of the first attempts to
pull together evidence from
different parts of the world
and make the argument
that big trees deserve special consideration.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Maybe it will change
the mindset,â&#x20AC;? Harmon said.
Lindenmayer became
interested in big trees while
tracking the fate of Australiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s equivalent of the northern spotted owl: the Lead-

management, we need to be
planning to restore historic
levels of those big, old trees.â&#x20AC;?
The scientists compared
the decline of ancient trees
with the decimation of
tigers, whales and other
large mammals.
After decades of protection, many slow-growing
species like the blue whale
still are hovering on the
brink of extinction, Lindenmayer pointed out.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;The stakes are very
high,â&#x20AC;? he said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Big trees can be lost
very quickly, but it can take
centuries for them to be
replaced.â&#x20AC;?

But thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still no
nationwide policy that singles out big, old trees for
protection or works to
ensure that young trees are
able to replace their elders,
he said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re
dramatically
reducing the number of big
trees,â&#x20AC;? Franklin said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;As part of our active

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A9

Briefly . . .
House Foundation, will host the
meeting in the main hall of
Queen of Angels Catholic
Church, 209 W. 11th St., at 6 p.m.
The public can hear about the
renovations and improvements
Reed Schultz and her team of
SEQUIM — The City Council architects have in store for Reed
has revised the schedule for can- Schultz’s former Tudor Inn beddidate interviews for a council
and-breakfast at 1108 S. Oak St.
vacancy.
The Captain Joseph House —
The interviews and potential
named for Reed Schultz’s son,
appointment will be held at
Army Capt. Joseph Schultz, who
5 p.m. Monday, Jan. 14, as part of was killed in action serving in
a regularly scheduled meeting at Afghanistan on May 29, 2011 —
the Sequim Transit Center, 190
will be a place of healing and
W. Cedar St.
relaxation for the families of milThe city is seeking to fill one
itary men and women killed in
City Council position with a term action since Sept. 11, 2001, Reed
expiring Dec. 31, 2013. The pay is Schultz said.
$150 per month.
Applicants must be registered Dicks recognized
voters of the city, have one year’s
WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep.
continuous residence in the city
and hold no other public office or Norm Dicks has received a
national parks group’s highest
employment in the city governaward.
ment.
The Coalition of National
Applications are available at
Park Service Retirees awarded
Sequim City Hall, 152 W. Cedar
the George B. Hartzog Award to
St.; by phoning 360-683-4139; or
Dicks, D-Belfair, for his careeronline at www.sequimwa.gov.
long support of America’s
national parks and the National
Meeting tonight
Park Service.
PORT ANGELES — A Port
Hartzog was Park Service
Angeles woman on her way to
director from 1964 to 1972.
establishing a place of healing for
Dicks has served on the Intefamilies of fallen military men
rior appropriations subcommittee
and women will hold a public
since being elected to Congress in
meeting tonight to tell about the 1976.
project.
The congressman was recogBetsy Reed Schultz, founder of nized by the group as a key
player in securing the passage of
the nonprofit Captain Joseph

Sequim sets
interviews for
City Council

the Elwha River Restoration Act
in 1992 and the removal of the
Elwha and Glines Canyon dams.
Dicks, who did not seek reelection, will be succeeded by
Derek Kilmer, a Gig Harbor
Democrat, when the 113rd Congress convenes next month.

Premier’s worry
VICTORIA — The $783 million price tag to bring sewage
treatment to the Victoria area
worries British Columbia Premier Christy Clark, she said in a
TV interview this week.
“Yes, I have had some concerns about it,” Clark told
CHEK-TV News in an interview
broadcast Monday.
The B.C. government ordered
treatment for the region in 2006
and officially signed on to provide
a maximum of $248 million
toward the project in July.
But that money won’t be
handed over until the project is
completed in 2018.
“Taxpayers deserve that kind
of respect in what’s been a really
tough economy,” Clark said.
It’s unclear if Clark’s comments signal a shift away from
the provincial government’s
pledge.
Victoria-area local governments are developing secondary
sewage treatment to end the discharge of raw sewage into the
Strait of Juan de Fuca from two
outfalls.
Peninsula Daily News

October 1, 1944
December 5, 2012
Harold James “Jim”
Jacoby passed away suddenly December 5, 2012,
from natural causes.
He was born in Seattle, Washington, to Harold
and Patricia (Murphy)
Jacoby on October 1,
1944, and lived in the
Wallingford District until
marrying Mary Jane (Sennott) on June 10, 1967.
Shortly after marrying,
Jim attended and graduated from Huxley College
at Western Washington
University with a bachelor’s degree in environmental science.
A lifetime interest in
hunting, fishing and
camping was further
realized when he went
to work for the University
of Washington School
of Forestry, running a
research project on the
Hoh River watershed
shortly after graduation
in 1975.
Moving his family to
Forks was a dream come
true. Through economic
ups and downs, the family
stayed on in the West
End, and Jim eventually
went to work for the U.S.
Forest Service as a fisheries biologist and forester,

Mr. Jacoby
from which he retired
in 2005.
His interest in fishing
and the environment and
work experience led to his
participation as a citizen
and technical adviser to
the North Pacific Coast
Lead Entity for the Washington State Salmon
Coalition for the past four
years.
An avid hunter and
fisherman, Jim’s greatest
joys were sharing with
and teaching his grandchildren about the outdoors. Saltwater fishing
with Mary (and until
recently his mother) was
another favorite pastime.
Montana hunting trips with
son Rick, grandson Jake
and friends was another
highlight of his life.

He also developed a
keen interest in landscaping after retiring to their
Bear Creek property and
spent many hours in
developing their retirement home and property.
He was preceded in
death by his father, Harold; mother Patricia; and
sister Patricia Ann Stuart.
He is survived by his
loving wife of 45 years,
Mary; his son, Richard
(Rick), and daughter-inlaw, Kathy; grandchildren
Brooke and Jake of Forks;
brother Daniel (Laura)
Jacoby of Arlington,
Washington; sisters Chris
(Dennis) Jurus of Lynnwood, Washington,
and Josephine (Macus)
Minor; and numerous
nephews, nieces and
extended family in the
Seattle area.
A gathering of friends
and families to celebrate
Jim’s life will be scheduled
this coming spring in one
of the U.S. Forest Service
campgrounds. Notice will
be given at that time.
The family requests
that donations in Jim’s
memory be made to the
Quillayute Valley School
District Scholarship Program in Forks.
Arrangements were
made by Drennan-Ford
Funeral Home, Port
Angeles.

(WANNA

BE) ROLLING ON A RIVER

Kitsap Mountaineers sea kayaker Kay Gowan of
Seattle rests as she floats on the water at the Glenn
Jarstad Aquatic Center in Bremerton. The
Mountaineers were holding a kayak-rolling clinic.

Death and Memorial Notice

Death and Memorial Notice
HAROLD JAMES
‘JIM’ JACOBY

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ROBERT
EMERSON
GIGER SR.
April 20, 1936
December 9, 2012
Robert Emerson Giger
Sr., 76, died at home on
Sunday, December 9,
2012, surrounded by his
wife and children.
Robert was born
April 20, 1936 in Walla
Walla, Washington, to
Chester Allen Giger and
Catherine White Giger.
He is survived by four
siblings, Kenneth, Samuel, Ellen and David, and
attended schools in
Weston, Oregon, and
Walla Walla. He served as
superintendent of corrections facilities for the
Washington State Department of Corrections, retiring in the mid-’80s. He
was also a member of the
National Guard in the
state of Oregon.
He made his home in
Vancouver, Washington,
with wife Carolyn Ann
before moving to Leavenworth, Washington, in
2006.
Preceding him in death
were his parents, brother
Miles Wesley Giger and
son Ryan Elliott Giger.
He is survived by his

Death and Memorial Notice
Death and Memorial Notice
ROBERT JAMES
SWENSON
June 23, 1924
December 2, 2012

Mr. Swenson
dren. They are Earl (Vicki)
Locke of Glendale, Arizona, Berl (Kelly) Locke of
Phoenix, Arizona, Gala
(Bill) Case of Clifton, Colorado, and Mavis (Joe)
Bounds of Grand Junction, Colorado.
While in Washington,
Bob worked as a lumber
grader at Weyerhaeuser
in Snoqualmie, an inspector at Boeing in Seattle
and owned Bob’s Exxon
in Port Angeles.
In 1989, he retired as
a custodian at Monroe

Mr. Gerald Lee Major,
79, died November 29,
2012, at his residence in
Lacey, Washington, after
a battle with cancer.
He is survived by his
four children, two on the
East Coast and two in
Sequim; and his wife,
Murrie Cannon Major,
who was beside him
when he passed.
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raised in Snoqualmie Falls
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From 1944 to 1946, he
served as a U.S. Marine.
He later married
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Beamer of Oak Harbor,
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September 15, 1972.
She also had four chil-

Elementary in Port Angeles, and he and his wife
moved to Grand Junction.
In Port Angeles, both
he and Lola were longtime members of Lighthouse Christian Center
and then Grand Junction
longtime members of
Bethel Assembly of God.
He was proud to be a
veteran and was a member of his local VFW.
Bob saw his Heavenly
Father in everything in life
and especially enjoyed
family, gardening, painting, singing and nature.
He is preceded in
death by his parents,
three brothers, two sisters
and one grandson.
He is survived by
his wife, and together,
their eight children, one
sister, 21 grandchildren,
32 great-grandchildren
and two great-greatgrandchildren.
A memorial service
for Robert was held in
Grand Junction. Internment, with honors, was
at the Veterans Memorial
Cemetery of Western
Colorado.

his stepchildren, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
He was the grandson
of Hayes Evans Sr. and
Susie Allene Duncan,
both “Grand Pioneers” of
Sequim.
There will be a
celebration of life in
honor of Mr. Major on
Monday, December 17,
at 12:30 p.m. at Mountain Green MH Estates
Clubhouse, 5140 Yelm
Highway Southeast,
Lacey, WA 98503.

GERALD LEE
MAJOR

Cassie were also a special part of his life.
Visitation will be held
today, December 12, from
1 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at
Ward’s Funeral Chapel,
303 Pine Street in Leavenworth.
A celebration of Bob’s
life will be held on Thursday, December 13, at
11 a.m. at Leavenworth
Community United Methodist Church, 418 Evans
Street. The Reverends
Denise Roberts and John
Romine will officiate.
Burial will be next
to his son Ryan at
Ocean View Cemetery,
3127 West 18th Street
in Port Angeles, on
Friday, December 14, at
1:30 p.m.
Memorial gifts in Bob’s
name may be made to a
charity of choice.
Bob’s family would like
to extend a special thankyou to Dr. Maury Hafermann and the staff at
Cascade Medical Center,
Dr. Mandy Robertson at
Wenatchee Valley Medical
Center and Central Washington Hospital Hospice,
especially Bob’s nurse,
Annette.
Arrangements have
been entrusted to Ward’s
Funeral Chapel in Leavenworth.

Fishing till the end of the world
IT WAS DAYLIGHT on the
water on a morning so cold that
the river smoked.
Downstream, the
river disapPat
peared into a
Neal
fog bank with
an ominous
roar below, giving one the
impression that
the earliest
explorers might
have been correct in their
belief that if
you went west
far enough, you
would fall off the end of the
Earth.
Which would be just my luck
with the end-of-the-world thing
looming in the day planner.
This is not a new threat. Anyone who’s fished for steelhead for
very long has faced doomsday

before — only we call it “The
Emergency Fishing Closure.”
The end of the world could be
a good thing.
We could fish all the closed
waters with no bag limit, and
finally keep a bull trout!
No matter, we’ll fish hard
until the end of the world.
Nobody wants to face Armageddon with space left on the
punch-card.
I was fishing with my fancy
friend, one of those big-city types
with a tight drag and a hair trigger, jumping out of his chair like
he got hit with a bug zapper.
Suddenly, his rod went down.
A big steelhead thrashed on
the surface of the water.
Our angler reefed back on the
heavy gear with everything he
had. You’d think a 10-pound fish
didn’t have a chance, but they
don’t call them steelhead for
nothing.

They’re tough.
Steelhead are just dumb animals, but according to catch-rate
statistics, they are generally
smarter than people.
Half the people who fish for
steelhead don’t catch one in a
year of trying.
Even if they hook one, the
steelhead know what to do,
swimming straight at the angler
until they get enough slack in
the line to let the hook fall out.
If this doesn’t work, the steelhead comes to the surface shaking its head, causing our angler
to pull even harder and jerk the
hook free — then collapse in
despair, asking that eternal question: “Why did I lose the fish?”
They probably watched too
many bass-fishing shows on
which the dudes drag in the fish
like they’re killing snakes.
You can’t catch a steelhead
like that.

Peninsula Voices
These measures relieve
uncertainty
for property
Department of Ecology’s
owners, contractors, connewest victims, WIRA 18
struction workers, loan
East property owners,
institutions, Realtors, etc.?
believe [Clallam] county
Really?
commissioners formulated
In what alternative realtheir memorandum of
ity do planners live? Will
understanding with good
taxpayers fund Forks resiintentions.
However, commissioners’ dents’ water under a comparable scheduled edict?
statements, “To get to this
This edict epitomizes
point is better than . . . litifanatical
environmentalgation and continuing to
ism’s moral chaos, specififight,” and “. . . let’s not
cally that nature’s needs
have it [the rule] create
(excluding mankind) overhurt or uncertainty ecoride fundamental human
nomically” beg numerous
need — water.
questions.
Knowing this authoriAppeasement is better
for whom? Is water — logi- tarian rule was conceived
in unscientific presumpcally inherent to land’s
tions that are deficient of
value — not a property
scientifically proven eviessential that’s worth a
dence that well usage
fight?
decreases in-stream flow
As Washington’s debt
exacerbates bitterness.
nears $74 billion, Ecology
Will this now-ordinary
offers $100,000 and seeks
an additional $2.05 million practice of living at others’
expense, produced by
(tax dollars) from our
leftism’s/progressivism’s
state’s building construction account for water miti- moral muddle, eventually
extinguish all Americans’
gation.

It is better to give it line and
be as gentle as you can so you
don’t make the fish mad.
Once upon a time, I was fishing below a busy logging road.
It was back in the last century, a simpler time when loggers
ruled the Earth.
(The joke was that a log-truck
driver would work for free if you
just painted his name on the
door, but I knew he’d rather be
fishing — especially if he saw the
20-pound, chrome-bright hen
steelhead on the end of my line.
(Log-truck drivers would quit
their jobs or blab that fish on the
CB radio until the creek was so
crowded, you’d have to bring your
own rock to stand on by the next
morning.
(Just to be safe, every time a
log truck went by, I pretended to
be snagged up.)
It had started raining.
After a half-hour or so, I was

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getting pretty soaked, but the
fish was still on.
I wasn’t going anywhere
unless the fish did.
By keeping the rod tip low, the
fish stayed deep.
The line came in by inches
until the fish neared the beach.
There was a lull between
trucks. I was about to gently
slide her onto the gravel bar
when she rolled over and spat
the hook.
That big hen was a good lesson.
Be gentle, play the fish easy
and give her plenty of line.
You’ll probably lose her anyway.

_______
Pat Neal is a fishing guide
and “wilderness gossip
columnist.” Neal can be reached
at 360-683-9867 or email at
patnealwildlife@yahoo.com.
His column appears here every
Wednesday.

pay for homeowners’ water
(if available) that homeowners would freely, independently and willingly
draw from their wells without leftism’s intrusion
destroying everything it
touches.
Susan Shotthafer,
Port Angeles

It’s on the Internet
Some people are raving,
“It was the people’s choice
to re-elect Obama.”
Nothing is mentioned
that the majority of those
people barely knew where
to place their “X,” and they
only knew they were voting
for their freebies to con-

tinue or increase.
While certain groups try
to distract and confuse the
general public who choose
not to follow them as blind
sheep, calling them racists
or being prejudice to their
demands, those groups and
their leaders themselves
are showing these traits.
The names of God, Jesus
Christ, the American flag
and our Constitution have
all come under attack by
such groups, claiming all
these are offensive to them.
What is questionable
here is the fact many of
these groups never mention
or complain about the Islam
belief, and about the Koran
being openly taught in many
of our public schools, which
also have rooms set aside
for daily prayer times that
disrupt classroom schedules.
Many parents are
unaware of this fact.
Check out the Internet,
and be enlightened.
Shirley Berg,
Sequim

The cost of maintaining Hurricane Ridge Road
OLYMPIC NATIONAL
PARK claims that it’s too
expensive keeping the Hurricane Ridge Road open weekdays.
I am associated with Free
Hurricane Ridge (its website:
freehurricaneridge.blogspot.com)
and have done some research
into this matter.
This is what I’ve learned:
The $775,000 alleged cost to
open the road 9 a.m. to dusk is
twice the cost of the Baker
Highway and Utah’s Little Cottonwood Canyon, two of the
worst winter roads in North
America.
These roads are open 24/7,
and almost never close despite
more snow.
Crater Lake (Ore.) National
Park and Cottonwood Canyon
in Utah are 30 miles of highelevation road cleared 24/7 with
crews of six.
Mount Baker uses seven.
ONP used nine to keep the
Hurricane Ridge Road open
9 to 5.
Why do we cost more and
require a bigger crew than
Mount Baker?
The road crew does not work
while the road is open to the
public.
During the two-year trial
period, there was not a single

tains the park’s 162 trucks,
heavy equipment, generators
and other small engines.
■ Three employees maintain
the Camp David Junior and
week that it took more than 40
East Beach roads at Lake CresTHANK YOU FOR the
hours to clear the road.
opportunity to respond. We wel- cent (both of which provide
The actual fuel cost for the
come the chance to provide cor- access to private homes and
additional four days access was rect information about winter
lands), the Olympic Hot Springs
$12,372 in 2012.
road access to Hurricane Ridge. and Whiskey Bend roads in the
The Lake Crescent/Sol Duc
park’s Elwha Valley, and the Sol
The Hurricane Ridge Road
Ranger District is staffed by
has a three-person plowing crew Duc Road (which must have at
three rangers; Hurricane Ridge in winter. Its full-time job is
least one lane open for conceshas five.
sion employees) and the Stairmaintaining weekend access.
Olympic National Forest has
The crew’s normal work day case Road near Hoodsport.
three rangers total, thousands
■ Two road crew employees
is 5 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Thursday
of miles of road and a much
through Sunday, though adjust- live and work in the Quinault
more complex law enforcement
ments are made when needed to area and are tasked with mainmilieu.
taining the North and South
The cited costs include salary provide late afternoon coverage. Shore Quinault roads (both of
If
the
Hurricane
Ridge
Road
and wages for full-time permais clear and free of any mainte- which provide access to private
nent employees that are not
homes and lands), the North
nance needs, the crew works on
practicable to replace with seaFork and Graves Creek roads in
other roads assignments while
sonals.
Quinault, the Hoh Rain Forest
The costs do not factor in the remaining in the Port Angeles
Road and the Queets Road.
costs of clearing the road in the area and on call for Ridge
In keeping with National
needs.
spring if the road was not
Park Service standards for
Although this three-person
plowed all winter.
safety, visitor service and
crew’s
regular duty is maintain- resource protection, additional
Budget cuts at all levels of
government have required more ing weekend access to Hurristaff provide a range of other
cane Ridge, road damage or
efficient plowing operations
vital services whenever the
other emergencies may necessi- Hurricane Ridge Road is open
We should expect better
tate that it be reassigned to
stewardship from the National
in winter.
other park areas.
Park Service.
These include three employRoles of the remaining six
Summer Northern,
ees who provide emergency
Port Angeles employees of the park-wide road response and law enforcement
crew are described below:
along the Hurricane Ridge Road,
■ One park mechanic main- and one building maintenance
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the response, at our request, to
this letter by Barb Maynes,
Olympic National Park spokeswoman:

employee who cleans the visitor
center and restrooms and maintains the building’s water, electrical and heating systems.
On Saturdays and Sundays,
there are also two employees
who provide visitor information
and ranger-guided snowshoe
walks.
Additional volunteers from
Olympic Mountain Rescue provide trail patrol, avalanche
awareness and emergency
response during search and rescue events.
For the entire winter, the
cost of providing these services
Friday through Sunday at Hurricane Ridge — including salaries, equipment maintenance,
fuel and supplies — is approximately $450,000.
Additional services (ski lifts,
equipment rentals, food service
and souvenirs) are provided by
park partners ARAMARK and
the Hurricane Ridge Winter
Sports Club.
Given the current park budget and weekend popularity of
Hurricane Ridge, providing visitor access on the three busiest
days of the week makes good
sense and compliments the variety of other recreational opportunities that Olympic National
Park and the Olympic Peninsula offer.

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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2012

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Clallam PUD budget
sees increasing rates
Renewable energy, BPA upswing
bring rise to water, sewer plans
“BPA wholesales electricity to the PUD.
“BPA has indicated it will
raise wholesale rates, effective October 2013, by approximately 8 percent.
“In addition, BPA has
reduced the amount of funding it provides utilities for
conservation efforts, yet
mandated
conservation
efforts by the PUD must be
increased as a result of the
[state] Energy Independence
Act [also known as Initiative
937, passed in 2006].”
The statement added this
warning:
“The PUD has given
many public presentations
where it has committed to
stable rates, though this may
mean electric rate increases
of up to 3 percent each year.”

BY PAUL GOTTLIEB
PENINSULA DAILY NEWS

SEQUIM — The three
Clallam County Public Utility District commissioners
have voted to approve 2013
budgets based tentatively on
a rate increase of up to 3
percent for PUD power customers and a 6 percent hike
for water users.
The electricity expense
budget totals $57.41 million,
down from $57.92 million
this year.
The Water Department
expense budget is $4.66 million, up from $3.74 million
for 2012.
The Sewer Department’s
expense budget is $50,648,
up from $49,724, with no
rate increase for its wastewater customers.
There was no breakdown
immediately available on Water rate
what the rate hikes would
The 6 percent rate hike
mean to the average PUD for Clallam PUD water users
customer’s bill.
would be effective next
month.
Waiting on BPA
“This rate increase is the
“The [electricity] budget third of a three-year increase
assumes an electric rate at 6 percent each year,” the
increase of up to 3 percent, PUD said in its statement.
“The rate increases were
but that increase has not
been finalized as of yet,” Clal- approved in 2010.
“Water rate increases are
lam PUD said in a statement
put out by Michael Howe, its generally implemented in
executive communications three-year cycles.”
On Tuesday, a day after
coordinator.
The PUD statement said, the budgets were approved,
“If a rate increase is enacted, Howe spoke to an audience
it likely would not go into of about 60 at the SequimDungeness Valley Chamber
effect until May of 2013.”
The statement gave this of Commerce luncheon at
SunLand Golf & Country
explanation:
“No official rate increase Club.
He said support in the
has been approved at this
time because there is uncer- state Legislature remains
tainty about what the Bonn- tepid for amending I-937 to
eville Power Administration the benefit of Clallam PUD
will do with its [wholesale] and its 30,000 customers.
rates.
“To be honest, the feed-

back from the Legislature is
sort of iffy,” Howe said.
Howe gave a 25-minute
presentation to the chamber’s audience on efforts to
get state lawmakers to
reverse the initiative’s exclusion of hydroelectric power
as a source of renewable
energy.
He also discussed the
requirement’s impacts on the
PUD, whose primary function
is distribution of electricity to
county residents except those
living in Port Angeles, which
has a city-owned utility.
The 2006 initiative, which
had a voter majority in Clallam County, required utilities with 25,000 customers or
more to purchase 3 percent
of their energy from renewable sources such as wind
and solar by 2012.
It also requires that 9
percent be drawn from
renewable sources by 2016
and 15 percent by 2020 —
and there’s the rub.
Clallam County PUD is
the smallest utility in the
state among more than a
dozen that must comply with
the initiative.
Clallam
PUD
has
endorsed an effort led by the
Tri-Cities Regional Chamber
of Commerce to amend the
act.
The PUD wants to be
allowed to suspend the
requirement for meeting the
renewable-energy edict until
its utility load growth
requires it.
Load growth was 2.1 percent in 2006.
It is 0.8 percent in the
recession reality of 2012.
The hydroelectric power
that Clallam PUD buys from
BPA costs 3 cents per kilowatt.
Howe said this compares
with 14 cents a kilowatt for
solar power, 12 cents for wind
and 9 cents to 10 cents for
biomass.

KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS

PETS

STRIKE A POSE

Santa Claus, portrayed by veterinarian Dwight Waknitz, holds
Henry, a Scottish terrier, during a pet photos with Santa session
at the Olympic Veterinary Clinic in Port Angeles last week.
Proceeds from photo purchases and canned food donations were
to benefit the Salvation Army Food Bank.

Sequim panel allows building-on
BY ARWYN RICE
PENINSULA DAILY NEWS

SEQUIM — A new city
ordinance will allow some
buildings to be just a bit
taller.
But the new height cannot be part of the building
structures themselves, the
City Council decided in a 5-1
vote this week.
Under the new ordinance,
a small terrace roof, elevator
towers, heating and air-conditioning systems, and solaror wind-powered equipment
that exceed the city’s commercial building height code
of 35 feet will be allowed.
The rooftop terrace covering may be no more than 256
square feet in area or 12 feet
tall, and cover no more than
5 percent of the roof area.
Other rooftop equipment
must be set back from the
edge of the building to reduce
its appearance from the

street or other buildings,
according to the new ordinance.
Councilman Erik Erichsen voted against the ordinance, citing concerns that
the addition to the city building code will provide a backdoor for taller construction in

the future.
Other council members
said they shared Erichsen’s
concerns but felt confident
that the newly allowed
exceptions would not be
widely adopted because not
all rooftop designs are conducive to such uses.

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Course
hosting
10K run
THE GOLF COURSE will double as a race course during the inaugural New Year’s Discovery 10K
Run/Walk on New Year’s Day.
Race participants will traMichael
verse the cart
paths at Discov- Carman
ery Bay Golf
Course and the
newest section of
the Larry Scott
Trail near Port
Townsend (the
eastern terminus of the Olympic Discovery
Trail) from 11
a.m. to 2 p.m. on
Tuesday, Jan. 1.
Beanies will
be provided to the first 200 entrants
and Olympic Discovery Trail pins to
the first 300 racers.
Entrance fee is $20 with a beanie,
$15 without or $25 and $20 for raceday registration.
To register or for more information visit, peninsulatrailscoalition.
org or phone Jeff Selby at 360-3850995 or NYDisco10K@gmail.com.

One-person scramble
Only 20 spots remain for the
Price Ford One-Person Scramble at
SunLand Golf & Country Club this
Sunday.
The tourney has a 9 a.m. shotgun
start (barring frost) and entry is
$40, which includes golf, lunch,
prizes and proxies.
SunLand pro Tyler Sweet asks:
“Have you ever wondered how well
you would score if you could have
those one or two shots over? Well,
this is the tournament for you.”
Players will be grouped in threes,
and each player will hit two consecutive shots and choose the best one,
just like a regular scramble.
Men will play from the white
tees, players 70 and older will play
from gold tee boxes and if eight
ladies can form a division, women
will play the red tees.
A $1,280 prize fund will be available based on a full field.
Entries are available at the SunLand Golf Shop or email tyler@
sunlandgolf.com.
For more information, phone
Sweet at 360-683-6800.

Toys for Tots event
Port Townsend Golf Club will
hold its annual Toys for Tots Christmas Scramble on Sunday.
It’s an 18-hole blind draw handicap scramble.
Cost is $25 per player with $10
green fees for nonmembers.
Port Townsend’s Holiday Player
Appreciation Party and Merchandise
Sale will follow play (spouses
encouraged to attend).
TURN

Sequim’s Tim Guan, left, charges into Hans Shippers of
Kingston and draws an offensive foul during the
Wolves’ Olympic League victory Monday night.

SEQUIM — Sequim needed
a full team effort to beat Kingston 53-47 on Monday night.
The Wolves had enough players contribute that they were
able to overcome the illness a
few others were dealing with.
“The word collective is a good
way to describe that win,”
Sequim coach Greg Glasser said.
In his first start, senior
Andrew Shimer scored 15
points, including a pair of
3-pointers, and defensively
helped slow Kingston’s Hans
Shippers in the second half.
Shippers finished with 19
points for the Buccaneers, but
only three came in the second
half.
Shimer’s good play didn’t
necessarily surprise Glasser, but
the outside shooting was unexpected.
“He’s always working hard
for us. He understands the game
real well,” Glasser said.
“I thought he knew his limitations, but tonight he really
tested the boundaries a little bit
and stepped outside, but it
worked out for us tonight.”

Tim Guan finished with
seven points, including four of
the game’s most important.
With Sequim trailing by a
point with under three minutes
to play, Guan scored consecutive
baskets to give the Wolves a
50-47 lead that they wouldn’t
relinquish.
Sequim also had important
contributions from leading scorers Gabe Carter and Jayson
Brocklesby.
During a crucial stretch in
the second quarter, the two
seniors combined for a 9-2 run
that ended a long scoring
drought and flipped a six-point
deficit into a one-point lead.
Carter and Brocklesby also
played big roles in the Wolves’
strong finish to the third quarter.
Sequim was down 37-32 with
less than two minutes remaining in the period before Carter
scored the Wolves’ next eight
points — two 3-pointers that
sandwiched a layup off a steal
by Anthony Pinza — to tie the
game at 40.
With one second remaining
in the quarter, Brocklesby scored
and was fouled.
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TO

WOLVES/B3

Redskins blow out North Mason
PT earns first
league win
with 53-38 rout
PENINSULA DAILY NEWS

PORT TOWNSEND — Port
Townsend notched its second
straight win with a 53-38 rout
of North Mason on Monday
night.
The Redskins’ season was off
to a rough start after losing big
in their first three games to
Sequim, Kingston and Olympic.
But Port Townsend finally
earned its first win on Saturday
against Crosspoint Academy,
and now is on a winning streak
after Monday’s win.
“I’m really proud of them
because they rebounded [from
losses],” Redskins coach Tom
Webster said of his team.
“They played excellent
against Crosspoint, and then
followed up with this game.
“Now we’re trying to build on
these wins. The key to winning
seasons is getting consecutive
wins.”
Port Townsend (1-3, 2-3) put
in an all-around effort to beat
the Bulldogs.
The Redskins’ defense held
North Mason to 21 points in the
first three quarters, which built

STEVE MULLENSKY/FOR PENINSULA DAILY NEWS

Port Townsend’s Will O’Brien pulls in a rebound as teammates Brian LeMaster (5)
and Paul Spaultenstein (33) look on in the first period of Port Townsend’s Olympic
League victory over North Mason on Monday night.
(12) combined for 25 points.
Russell also made three
3-pointers.
Point guard Will O’Brien
a 24-point lead going into the
added eight points and Paul
final period.
Spaltenstein had six.
On offense, Cody Russel (13
“This is the third game in a
points) and Skyler Coppenrath row that we shot the ball well,”

Basketball

Webster said.
Blowing out North Mason
(1-3, 1-5) came as a bit of a surprise to Webster
“They’re pretty good, we just
played really good,” he said.
TURN

Atlanta Falcons tight end Tony Gonzalez tries a hula hoop while he and
teammates participated in the “Shop with a Jock” program, which provides a
$100 gift card and a shopping experience to children from an Atlanta-area
mission at a Walmart department store on Tuesday.

Cowboys player death raises question of safety net
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

IRVING, Texas — San Francisco 49ers defensive end Demarcus Dobbs walked away from a
one-vehicle accident on his 25th
birthday last month and was
arrested on suspicion of driving
under the influence.
Less than two weeks later,
with the NFL rocked by the car
crash that killed Dallas Cowboys
player Jerry Brown and left his
teammate, Josh Brent, facing a
manslaughter charge, Dobbs
swears he’ll find another way
home whenever he does too much
partying.
“I’m never going to put myself
in that situation ever again,” he
said.
This is, of course, exactly what
the NFL, its teams and the players’ union wants to hear amid
fresh questions about whether all
the warnings and safety nets —
because players in most of the
major sports leagues arguably
have more than the general public — will ever be enough to pre-

vent accidents and deaths.
“There’s a lot of pressure being
in the NFL . . . but it’s no excuse
for bad decisions,” Detroit coach
Jim Schwartz said. “Players have
a lot of options, tools at their disposal, that they need to take
advantage of, but it comes down
to individuals making good decisions.”
Brown’s death on Saturday
and the arrest of defensive tackle
Josh Brent after police say he
caused the fatal wreck by speeding and driving drunk put the
NFL Players Association’s safe
ride program back in the spotlight.
It was revamped three years
ago after concerns that enough
players weren’t using it.
Union spokesman Carl Francis said the program is a strong
point of emphasis, and every player’s membership card includes the
contact information. And CEO
John Glavin of Florida-based Corporate Security Solutions Inc.,
which runs the program, said he
is happy with how the union gets

NFL
the word out on the program.
He also stressed the confidentiality of the program, saying the
company doesn’t even tell the
union when players call for rides.
Jacksonville cornerback CB
Rashean Mathis, the team’s union
representative, said players
rarely, if ever, use the program.
“Confidentiality is the problem,” Mathis said. “Guys are going
to go out and have fun. We’re just
like the regular guy that works a
9-to-5 job. On a Friday night, he
goes out and has some beer. It’s
not the best-case scenario, but it
happens in life.”
To use the program, players
can either work in advance to set
up a full night with a driver or
make a call for a ride home.
The brochure says most
response times are less than an
hour. The program is available all
year, and Glavin said his company
also serves the NBA and NHL.

In Major League Baseball, designated drivers are available to
players and fans through the
teams, and the players have
access to a confidential program
that will take them wherever they
need to go.
In the NFL, some teams rely
solely on the NFLPA’s program,
while others have an additional
system.
In Cincinnati, the Bengals pay
a company to make two drivers
available when an employee calls.
One drives the caller home, and
the other follows in the employee’s vehicle.
Glavin said some players hesitate to use that kind of program
because they don’t want others
driving their expensive vehicles.
Either way, the program hinges
on a player making the first move.
“We can’t make them make the
phone call,” Glavin said.
Last summer, the NFL held its
15th annual rookie orientation,
which includes a number of life
skills sessions. For the first time,
separate sessions were held for

the AFC and NFC to make the
groups smaller, and current and
former players were brought in as
speakers, including Philadelphia
quarterback Michael Vick and
Cincinnati cornerback Adam
Jones. Both have had high-profile
legal problems, with Vick spending time in prison in a dogfighting
case.
The NFL has sessions on
issues ranging from guns to alcohol and drug use at other times of
the years, and all teams have
counselors who work with players, league spokesman Dan
Masonson said.
League owners are gathering
in the Dallas area today.
The agenda was set to focus in
part on player safety through the
addition of leg padding, but it’s
likely to change.
A week before Brown’s death,
Kansas City Chiefs linebacker
Jovan Belcher fatally shot his
girlfriend before driving to the
team’s stadium and shooting himself in front of his coach and general manager.

Forks 66,
Clallam Bay 37
FORKS â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Spartans
beat the Bruins for the second time in five days.
Braden Decker led all
scorers with 26 points.
The Spartansâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; other post
players also had nice scoring efforts.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Decker did a great job
offensive rebounding and
put backs and attacking the
hoop,â&#x20AC;? Forks coach Rick
Gooding said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;All of our guys did a god
job attacking the basket.
We did a good job getting
the ball inside.â&#x20AC;?
Mark Jacobson and Leo
Gonzales had 11 points
apiece, and Nick Gilmore
scored eight and Willie
Hatch had six.
Kevin Hess led Clallam
Bay with 10 points, while
Austin Ritter and Kelly
Gregory both had eight
points.
Both teams are back in
action tonight. Forks hosts
Neah Bay while the Bruins
(0-3) travel to Joyce to

But the last two quarters were a totally different
story on both ends of the
court for the Riders.
Port Angeles outscored
the Eagles 16-5 in the third
quarter and 19-2 in the
fourth.
Maddy Hinrichs paced
the Riders with 18 points.
Macy Walker added 14 and
Bailee Jones scored 10.
Port Angeles (4-0, 4-1)
hosts North Kitsap (2-1,
2-2) tonight in a showdown
of two of the leagueâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best.

Wolves: League win
CONTINUED FROM B1
He hit the free throw,
and Sequim led 43-40 going
into the final period.
Carter scored 15 points
in the game.
Brocklesby only managed seven, but found other
ways to help the Wolves
win, including blocking
Kingstonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s KT Deamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
layup that would have cut
Sequimâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lead to one point
with less than a minute to
play.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;[Brocklesby] played a
very solid game,â&#x20AC;? Glasser
said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You can be solid without scoring a lot of points.â&#x20AC;?
Even the players who
only played a few minutes,
such as Donovan Lee and
Dylan Eekhoff received
praise from the Sequim
coaches for the impact they
made on the game.
With the win, the Wolves
move to 2-2 on the season
and 2-1 in league play.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was a big win,â&#x20AC;?
Glasser said.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;In
the
[Olympic]
League, I see Kingston as
one of the top teams, and to
beat one of those top teams
is big.â&#x20AC;?
Sequim plays at North
Mason (1-3, 1-5) tonight.
Sequim 53, Kingston 47
Kingston
Sequim

ered several options as a
stopgap at third, including
Jeff Keppinger and Mark
Reynolds, but both accepted
deals with other teams.
Youkilis played third
base and first base last season for the Red Sox and
Chicago White Sox.
He was traded to the
White Sox last June as Bostonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new management
reshaped the Red Sox roster. There was friction from
the start of the season,
when first-year manager
Bobby Valentine questioned
Youkilisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; commitment â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
Dustin Pedroia publicly
stood up for his longtime
teammate, yet it seemed
clear Youkilisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; days in Boston were numbered.

NEW ORLEANS â&#x20AC;&#x201D; In a
sharp rebuke to his successorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s handling of the NFLâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
bounty investigation, former Commissioner Paul
Tagliabue overturned the
suspensions of four current
and former New Orleans
Saints players in a case
that has preoccupied the
league for almost a year.
Tagliabue, who was
appointed by Commissioner
Roger Goodell to handle the
appeals, still found that
three of the players engaged
in conduct detrimental to
the league.
He said they participated in a performance pool
that rewarded key plays â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
including hard tackles â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
that could merit fines.
But he stressed that the
teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s coaches were very
much involved.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;My affirmation of Commissioner Goodellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s findings
could certainly justify the
issuance of fines. However,
this entire case has been
contaminated
by
the
coaches and others in the
Saintsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; organization,â&#x20AC;? the
ruling said.
Tagliabue oversaw a second round of player appeals
to the league in connection
with the cash-for-hits program run by former defensive coordinator Gregg Williams from 2009-2011. The
players initially opposed his
appointment.

Saints linebacker Jonathan Vilma had been given
a full-season suspension,
while defensive end Will
Smith, Cleveland linebacker Scott Fujita and free
agent defensive lineman
Anthony Hargrove each
received shorter suspensions.
Tagliabue cleared Fujita
of conduct detrimental to
the league.
Saints
quarterback
Drew Brees offered his
thoughts on Twitter: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Congratulations to our players
for having the suspensions
vacated.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Unfortunately, there
are some things that can
never be taken back.â&#x20AC;?
None of the players sat
out any games because of
suspensions.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;They have been allowed
to play while appeals are
pending, though Fujita is on
injured reserve and Hargrove is not with a team.
Shortly before the regular season, the initial suspensions were thrown out
by an appeals panel created
by the leagueâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s collective
bargaining agreement.
Goodell then reissued
them, with some changes,

and now those have been
dismissed.
Now, with the player
suspensions overturned,
the end could be near for a
nearly 10-month dispute
over how the NFL handled
an investigation that covered three seasons and
gathered about 50,000
pages of documents.

NFLâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s response
â&#x20AC;&#x153;We
respect
Mr.
Tagliabueâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s decision, which
underscores the due process
afforded players in NFL
disciplinary matters,â&#x20AC;? the
NFL said in a statement.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;The decisions have
made clear that the Saints
operated a bounty program
in violation of league rules
for three years, that the
program endangered player
safety, and that the commissioner has the authority
under the [NFLâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s collective
bargaining agreement] to
impose discipline for those
actions as conduct detrimental to the league.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Strong action was taken
in this matter to protect
player safety and ensure
that bounties would be
eliminated from football.â&#x20AC;?

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KINGSTON â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Savannah Turrieta was too much
for the Wolves, scoring 19
points to help the Buccaneers to a league win.
The two teams were tied
at 26 going into the fourth
quarter, but Kingston (2-2,
2-2) dominated the final
eight minutes by outscoring
Sequim 17-8.
Alexas Besand once
again led the Wolves with
12 points and 10 boards.
Melanie Guan contributed eight points in the losing effort.
Sequim (0-3, 1-4) takes
on North Mason (0-4, 1-5)
tonight at Sequim High
School.

NEW YORK â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Kevin
Youkilis is about to get a
different look at the Red
Sox-Yankees rivalry.
The hard-nosed Youkilis,
who helped personify Bostonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s championship teams
over the past decade, on
Tuesday became the latest
former Red Sox star to
switch sides and land in
Bronx. The free agent
reached a deal that filled
New Yorkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s immediate need
for a third baseman to fill in
for injured Alex Rodriguez.
The one-year contract
for $12 million is pending a
physical. A person familiar
with the deal told The Associated Press about the
agreement under condition
of anonymity because no
announcement had been
made.
Youkilis, who turns 34 in
March, is expected to play
third base while Rodriguez
recovers from hip surgery.
A-Rod plans to have the
operation in mid-January
and could be sidelined until
the All-Star break or
beyond.
A three-time All-Star,
Youkilis will get an early
look at his old club. The Red

Sox are set to open next
season at Yankee Stadium
on April 1.
Johnny Damon, Roger
Clemens and Wade Boggs
are among the Boston stars
who wound up in pinstripes
in recent times. Of course,
the most famous player to
make that move was Babe
Ruth.
For years, Youkilis was
among the more popular
players at Fenway Park â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
scruffy and intense, Boston
fans loved how he battled
the Yankees. Youkilis and
Yankees pitcher Joba
Chamberlain had their own
feud that exemplified the ill
will between the clubs â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
the inside fastballs that
caused the trouble between
them tapered off in recent
seasons and now theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re set
to become teammates.
Minus Rodriguez for several months, the Yankees
tried to find a fill-in. They
made the offer to Youkilis
last week at the baseball
winter meetings. The agreement was first reported by
Fox Sports.
Eric Chavez, A-Rodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
backup for most of last season, joined Arizona last
week. The Yankees consid-

game, with each scoring 10
points.
Irina Lyons scored eight
and Enani Rubio contributed six points to the Redskinsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; win.
Port Townsend (2-2, 3-2)
will try for another league
win tonight when it hosts
Klahowya (0-3, 3-3).

B4

SportsRecreation

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2012

PENINSULA DAILY NEWS

Carroll says blowout handled properly
coming our way. It was a
terrific day for us, but I
understand, I get it.â&#x20AC;?
Seattleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s romp was one
of the biggest shutout victories in NFL history.
According to STATS,
LLC, with game information back to 1950, only New
England (59-0 over Tennessee in 2009) and the Los
Angeles Rams (59-0 over
Atlanta in 1976) posted
larger shutout wins.
And Seattleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s victory
very easily could have been
worse.
The Seahawks (8-5)
kicked short field goals
twice in the third quarter
and set a new franchise
record for most points
scored on Leon Washingtonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 3-yard touchdown run
with 2:32 remaining.
That late touchdown led
to some criticism of Carroll.

BY TIM BOOTH
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

RENTON â&#x20AC;&#x201D; One thing
Pete Carroll learned in his
nine years at Southern California was how to handle
blowouts.
Once the Trojans got
rolling in the middle of the
past decade, there were
plenty of lopsided scores.
So when he faced
another blowout situation
in the NFL on Sunday in
Seattleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 58-0 rout against
Arizona, Carroll felt his
team handled the sometimes uneasy situation in
proper fashion.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;You either have a sense
for it or you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t and I do.
Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m tuned in,â&#x20AC;? Carroll said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I do know that it looks like
the score just keeps going.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;[Sunday] was a day
where the ball just kept

Seahawks
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Every situation we
talked through. What youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re
trying to do, and here is
probably the key, what
youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re trying to do is make
first downs. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re trying to
get first downs and keep
the football, with the sensitivity of the situation,â&#x20AC;? Carroll said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;You know youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going
to run the football like
crazy, which was awesome
and we love to do that.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;We got a lot of things
done yesterday and unfortunately on the other side
that was a very hard day for
those guys. I get it.â&#x20AC;?

Flynn got in
One of Carrollâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s goals
was to get backup quarter-

back Matt Flynn some significant playing time in the
second half after spending
the entire season on the
bench behind Russell Wilson.
For the final 25 minutes
of the second half, Wilson
got to be a spectator while
Flynn played for the first
time since Week 17 of last
season with Green Bay.
Flynn threw nine times
during the span of four
drives in the third and
fourth quarters.
Six of the nine passes
were called â&#x20AC;&#x153;shortâ&#x20AC;? by the
official game book, and the
one curious decision was
Flynnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s throw to the end
zone on fourth-and-23 from
the Arizona 33 halfway
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
through the fourth quarter.
The pass fell incomplete.
Seahawks backup quarterback Matt Flynn
Seattle ran the ball 25 passes against the Arizona Cardinals during the
times in the second half.
second half of Seattleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 58-0 win.

Backup needed reps

threw a variety of things day night game that week.
If New England beats
â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was the first time just so we could get some
Matt had gotten in a game stuff on film. He got his feet the 49ers this weekend,
that game on Dec. 23 could
and we just didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have an wet, kind of.â&#x20AC;?
be for the lead in the NFC
opportunity, and he needs
Not looking ahead
West.
to play, he needs to get
But Carroll wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t interready because heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one play
Now the challenge for
away from leading this foot- Seattle is not letting the ested in entertaining
ball team,â&#x20AC;? Carroll said.
victory become a lingering thoughts of what lies a
â&#x20AC;&#x153;In that instance and hangover going to Toronto week ahead or the novelty
this is for years, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve always on Sunday to face the Buf- of being the Sunday night
game.
taken a look at what our falo Bills.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Yeah, whatever, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
special needs are.
Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a possible trap game
â&#x20AC;&#x153;He needed to throw the for the Seahawks coming moved back a little bit,â&#x20AC;?
ball a little bit. He threw off such a huge home vic- Carroll said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s two weeks from
the ball nine times. We tory and with a home showthrew the ball 22 times in down against San Francisco now. We just stay in the
the game. It was nothing.
that was flexed by the NFL hotel a little bit longer and
â&#x20AC;&#x153;And if you noticed he on Monday to be the Sun- then go play.â&#x20AC;?

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after bashing them.
The
veteran
wide
receiver was awarded to
New York off waivers from
Seattle on Tuesday as the
Jets try to bolster their
injured receiving corps with
a familiar face.
Edwards, waived by
Seattle on Monday, developed a good rapport with
Sanchez in helping New
York to consecutive trips to
the AFC title game in 2009
and 2010.
Edwards reiterated his
feelings for Sanchez last
week when he took to Twitter and criticized the Jets
organization.
With coach Rex Ryan

contemplating
whether
Sanchez would remain the
starting quarterback or be
replaced by third-stringer
Greg McElroy, Edwards
wrote on Twitter last Tuesday that people shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
blame Sanchez.

Backs Sanchez
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I played there,â&#x20AC;? he
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calling shots. Mark is a
beast and will [prove] it
when given a proper
chance.â&#x20AC;?
He tweeted an apology
later that day for his â&#x20AC;&#x153;emotional outburst,â&#x20AC;? and added:
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mark is a friend and former teammate, who I
wholeheartedly support.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nonetheless, I have disrespected and insulted an
administration that I have

the utmost respect for.â&#x20AC;?
A week later, all was
apparently forgiven and
forgotten.
Edwards had already
changed his Twitter avatar
to a picture of him smiling
in a Jets uniform less than
an hour after being claimed
off waivers.
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home,â&#x20AC;? he wrote on Twitter.
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that continuously supported me and pushed for
me. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m back and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s go
time.â&#x20AC;?
Edwards was released
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than one unproductive season in Seattle. He had just
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Wide World of Golf
A wonderful ode to the
final PGA Tour Q School as
we know it is available
from ESPNâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Grantland at
tinyurl.com/QSchoolOde.
This was the final year
the top 25 players (and
ties) received a PGA Tour
card.
Next year, Q School
qualifiers will earn Web.
com Tour status.
Sports are the greatest
of all reality shows: the
drama of Q School where
dreams can be realized or
dashed, always drew me in.
Shame on the lack of television coverage this year
by the PGA Tour.
The Grantland article
provides short vignettes of
players competing in the
final round.
Did they make it? Read
to find out and see if you
discover some new names
to root for next season.

Year-end columns
My annual year-end columns, one covering the
year in golf from January
through June, and from
July through December,
will run next Wednesday
and Dec. 26.
Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m open for submissions of notable golf events
here on the North Olympic
Peninsula, around the U.S.
or worldwide. My contact
information is below.

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Golf columnist Michael Carman
can be reached at 360-417-3527
or pdngolf@gmail.com.

LANSING, Mich. — The Michigan
Legislature gave final approval Tuesday to a bitterly contested right-towork plan limiting the power of
unions, a devastating and onceunthinkable defeat for organized
labor in a state considered a cradle of
the movement.
Unswayed by Democrats’ pleas
and thousands of protesters at the
state Capitol, the House approved
two final bills, sending them to Republican Gov. Rick Snyder.
One bill dealt with public sector
workers, the other with government
employees. Both measures cleared
the Senate last week.
Snyder is expected to sign them
into law as early as today.
Michigan would be the 24th state
with right-to-work laws, which ban
requirements that nonunion employees pay unions for negotiating contracts and other services.
Supporters said they give workers
more choice and boost economic
growth, but critics said the real intent
is to weaken organized labor.
Democrats offered a series of
amendments, one of which would
have allowed a statewide referendum.
All were swiftly rejected.
“This is the nuclear option,” Rep.
Doug Geiss, a Democrat from Taylor.
“This is the most divisive issue that
we have had to deal with. And this
will have repercussions.”
Protesters in the gallery chanted,
“Shame on you!” as the measures
were approved.
Union backers clogged the hallways and grounds shouting, “No justice, no peace,” and hundreds of protesters flooded the state Capitol hours
before the House and Senate con-

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Drew Dobson of Coleman, Mich., protests right-to-work legislation
that passed at the state Capitol in Lansing, Mich., on Tuesday.
vened, chanting and whistling.
Others joined a three-block march
to the building, some wearing coveralls and hard hats.
Valerie Constance, a Wayne
County Community College District
developmental reading instructor and
member of the American Federation
of Teachers, sat on the Capitol steps
with a sign shaped like a tombstone.
It read: “Here lies democracy.”

‘A very sad day’
“I do think this is a very sad day in
Michigan history,” said Constance, 57.
Sue Brown, a 50-year-old pipefitter
from Midland, and her 26-year-old
daughter Tracy Brown, a chemical
plant worker in Hemlock, held handwritten signs disparaging the governor, who last week announced support for the measures.
“It’s disgraceful,” said Sue Brown,
who said she’s not a union member
but feared right-to-work laws would
lower wages for all.

Sen. John Proos, a Republican
from St. Joseph who voted for the
right-to-work bills, said opponents
had a right to voice their anger but
predicted it would fade as the shift in
policy brings more jobs to Michigan.
“As they say in sports, the atmosphere in the locker room gets a lot
better when the team’s winning,” he
said.
In an interview with WWJ-AM,
Snyder said the intention is to give
workers a choice, not to target unions.
“This is about being pro-worker,”
Snyder said.
But foes of the law, including President Barack Obama, are trying to
keep the spotlight on this latest battleground in the war over union rights.
“People don’t understand the labor
movement,” said protester Sharon
Mowers, 54, of Lansing, a United Auto
Workers member and General Motors
employee. “They don’t understand the
sacrifices people made to get us to
this point.”

$ Briefly . . .
New staffer
joins Habitat
for Humanity
PORT ANGELES —
AmeriCorps VISTA member Wayne King of Port
Angeles has joined the staff
of Habitat for Humanity of
Clallam County.
King has committed to
a one-year VISTA service
term and will serve in the
role of resource development Coordinator with a
focus on fundraising, event
planning and volunteer
recruitment.
King has held positions
in human resources, customer service and travel,
and has volunteered at
various nonprofits.
He is originally from
Florida and attended Florida State University.
“Wayne brings a great
deal of experience to this
effort,” said Liz Heath,
interim executive director
for the affiliate.
“We are excited he will
be working with us to further develop our capabilities and introduce the
Habitat homeowner experience to more local families in need.”
AmeriCorps VISTA, or
Volunteers in Service to
America, is a national service program managed by
the Corp. for National and
Community Service.

On lockdown
WALLA WALLA —
The Washington State
Penitentiary has put four
units on lockdown after
three correctional officers
were injured during an
altercation with multiple
inmates.
Spokeswoman Shari

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Hall says the injured officers were taken to a local
hospital for medical treatment.
Hall says two officers
will be released, while one
will remain hospitalized
overnight Tuesday for
observation. No other
information was available
about the nature of their
injuries. No inmates were
seriously injured, she said.

Gold and silver
Gold futures for February delivery fell $4.80,
or 0.3 percent, to settle at
$1,709.60 an ounce on
Wednesday.
Silver for March
delivery fell 36 cents, or
1.1 percent, to end at
$33.02 an ounce.
Peninsula Daily News
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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2012

Dilbert

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Garfield

Momma

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DEAR ABBY: I have been married for 14 years to a man who had
two failed marriages.
I never felt insecure in my married life until I read his answers to a
Yahoo Answers poll that asked, “Do
you dream about the one that got
away?” and, “Have you found the
love of your life?”
My husband responded that he
thinks about her very often, especially on her birthday and Valentine’s Day.
To the other question, he replied
he had found the love of his life, but
the relationship had ended in
divorce, which he admitted was his
fault.
I know he was talking about his
first wife. I feel so sad and insecure.
Now, I must deal with the fact
that on Valentine’s Day, his thoughts
are with someone else.
How can I get over this? I no longer believe him when he says he
loves me because I have proof that
he hasn’t moved on yet.
I can’t believe he said that even
now, he still thinks about her. Please
help.
Sad Heart in San Jose

by Lynn Johnston

by Brian Crane

Frank & Ernest

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DEAR ABBY
business. He had
planned to move
Van Buren here but was
unable to sell his
home.
We used to see
each other every
two weeks, but no
longer. It has been
almost two
months.
He calls once a
week, but nothing
else.
We have been close, and he has
shared his life, his worries and personal information with me.
I haven’t pressured him, and I
don’t need a commitment now,
though I would like one someday.
Abby, he seems to be drifting
away. Is it OK to write to him, email
him, send encouraging notes once a
week and continue to support him?
Is it too much to ask for more frequent communication from him?
I have offered to travel the 1,000
miles, but he has evaded my offer.
I’m not ready to walk away. We
have been great together, and this is
difficult for me. Advice?
Holding On
in Coastal California

Abigail

Dear Sad Heart: Your husband
posted those thoughts on a public
forum?
Rather than feel hurt and insecure, you should be furious.
How would he feel if the person
answering that poll had been you?
(Of course, you would have had better judgment.)
By now, it should be clear to you
that you did not marry a rocket scientist.
You have my sympathy because
his first marriage has been over for
nearly two decades, and he — along
with his obvious shortcomings — are
no longer her problem but yours.
However, your pain may lessen if
you look at the bright side: He treats
you well 363 days a year, and many
of the women who write to me are
not so lucky.

by Bob and Tom Thaves

by Jim Davis

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PENINSULA DAILY NEWS

Wife insecure over
hubby’s poll-taking

by Scott Adams

For Better or For Worse

Pickles

Fun ’n’ Advice

Dear Holding On: It’s fine to be
supportive, but don’t overwhelm him
right now. You may have to let this
play out in its own time.
Your friend may have retreated
because he’s concentrating his
energy on reviving his business. He
may be licking his wounds, or he
may have met someone, which is
why he discouraged your visit. That
he still calls you is encouraging.
Because you have known him for
two years, I recommend you simply
ask him if he’s met someone else.
If the answer is no, it will put
your mind at ease.
But if the answer is yes, at least
you’ll be clear about what happened.

Dear Abby: I have been involved
with a man in a long-distance relationship for two years. I care about
him very much, and I believe he
cares for me.
Things were going great until he
was devastated by a downturn in his
by Mell Lazarus

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Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren,
also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was
founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Letters can be mailed to Dear Abby, P.O. Box
69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069 or via email by
logging onto www.dearabby.com.

The Last Word in Astrology ❘
ARIES (March 21-April 19):
Get out and do your thing. Traveling, networking and meeting
new people will all play in your
favor. Don’t let work drag you
down or cause you to miss out
on an entertaining time that can
improve your life and your future
plans. 5 stars

Rose is Rose

_________

TAURUS (April 20-May 20):
Offer your assistance and you
will build a closer bond to someone who has your best interests
at heart. Looking at your present employment situation and
considering new possibilities will
help you end the year on a high
note. 3 stars

by Pat Brady and Don Wimmer

GEMINI (May 21-June 20):
Don’t feel trapped by the
changes going on around you.
Regardless of what others are
doing or saying, make a move.
You have to trust in your own
instincts and let your skills and
dreams guide you to a better
position or partnership. 3 stars

ZITS ❘ by Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman

Ulterior motives are apparent
and must be considered when
making a choice. Put greater
emphasis on the things you like
to do and the skills you have to
offer, and you will make the
right decision. 5 stars
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):
Don’t let a disappointment ruin
your day. Put more effort into
your goals and finishing what
you start. Taking a timeout from
an emotional situation will help
you gain clarity regarding how
you should handle the situation.
Be true to you. 2 stars
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):
Follow an adventuresome path
that will inspire ideas and plans
for the future, which can take
you to unfamiliar locations in
search of unique and rewarding
choices. Don’t let personal
demands hold you back.
Change is required in order to
get ahead. 4 stars

CANCER (June 21-July
22): Consider your past, present and your future. Line up the
changes you want to make and
set your strategy to accomplish
your goals. A serious attitude
regarding your personal, emotional and physical wellness will
lead to good long-term choices.
3 stars

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov.
21): Don’t guess when you
have the facts and figures available. Decisions must be made
and certainly won’t please
everyone. In the end, it’s you
who has to feel comfortable
about your past, present and
future. An unusual living
arrangement will develop.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):
Don’t be fooled by compliments. 3 stars

Dennis the Menace

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by Hank Ketcham

Doonesbury

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by Garry Trudeau

The Family Circus

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by Eugenia Last

SAGITTARIUS (Nov.
22-Dec. 21): You’ll be fired up
and ready to take on anyone
who crosses your path. Underhandedness or misrepresentation is apparent and should be
nipped before it leads you in a
direction that you can’t live up to
or complete. Curb indulgence.
3 stars
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan.
19): Recognize what you need
to do to keep the peace. Someone needs your attention,
approval and assistance in
order to contribute more to your
needs. Nurture partnerships
and make suggestions that will
divvy up the responsibilities
evenly. Put love first. 3 stars
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.
18): Stick close to home, and
make amends with anyone you
have let down or disappointed.
Working toward a brighter future
will help you raise your selfesteem and set your strategy
for a more active and prosperous year ahead. Take control.
4 stars
PISCES (Feb. 19-March
20): Secure your position and
your love life, but don’t overreact or do something unorthodox
to ensure you win. Play a fair
game or your reputation may be
damaged. Do whatever you can
to help those in need without
expecting anything in return.
2 stars

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NOTICE OF ADOPTION
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, pursuant to the Growth Management Act, Chapter 36.70A, RCW, that on December 4, 2012, the Board of Clallam County
Commissioners took final legislative action on the 2012 Annual Amendment to
the Clallam County Comprehensive Plan, Title 31 CCC, and implementing
amendments to the Clallam County Zoning Code, Title 33 CCC as summarized below:

Ordinance 885: Approved map amendment application REZ2011-00006
amending the Comprehensive Land Use and Zoning Map designation of
approximately 5.05 acres from Rural Character Conservation (RCC3) to
Public (P). The property is located near the US 101/Sieberts Creek Rd intersection, referenced by Assessor Parcel Number (APN) 053014240050,
located within Section 14, Township 30N, Range 5W, W.M., in Clallam
County.
Ordinance 886: Approved map amendment application REZ2011-00003
amending the Comprehensive Land Use and Zoning Map designation approximately 0.5 acres on parts of three properties from Urban Very Low
Density (VLD)/Open Space Overlay and Open Space Corridor (OS) to Urban Neighborhood Commercial (UNC). The properties front on north side
of US 101 in the Port Angeles Urban Growth Area, referenced by APN
06301254-(0700, 0710, and 0780), located within Section 12, Township
30N, Range 6W, W.M., in Clallam County.
Ordinance 887: Approved map amendment application REZ2011-00004
amending the Comprehensive Land Use and Zoning Map designation of
three properties, totaling approximately 100-acres from Commercial Forest
(CF) to Commercial Forest/Mixed Use 20 (CFM20). The properties are located at the terminus of Sporseen Rd south of Sequim, referenced by
APNâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 042901-(120000, 210000, and 24000), located within Section 1,
Township 29N, Range 4 W, W.M., in Clallam County.
Resolution 77: Adopting specific findings for 2012 Annual Updates to Clallam County Comprehensive Plan, Title 31 CCC, and Zoning Code, Title 33
CCC, Related to Comprehensive Plan and Zoning Map Amendments.

Copies of these documents and related material may be viewed during normal
business hours at the office of the Department of Community Development,
Clallam County Courthouse, 223 East Fourth Street, Port Angeles, WA, and
are available online at the county website (http://www.clallam.net/bocc/countycode.html). Pursuant to RCW 36.70A.290, these amendments and update elements may be appealed within 60 days of the date of publication of this notice
to the State of Washington Growth Management Hearings Board.
Pub: Dec. 12, 2012
Legal No. 443954

NOTICE OF TRUSTEEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S SALE Pursuant to the Revised Code of Washington
Chapter 61.24, et seq. FIRST FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION OF PORT ANGELES v. ROBERSON; LOAN NO. 314619101. I. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned Trustee will on the 11th day of
January, 2013, at the hour of 10:00 a.m. in the main lobby of the Clallam
County Courthouse, 223 East Fourth Street in the city of Port Angeles, state of
Washington, sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder, payable at
the time of sale, the following described real property, situated in the county of
Clallam, state of Washington, to-wit: LOT 3 OF THE HIDEAWAY SHORT
PLAT, RECORDED OCTOBER 4, 2006 IN VOLUME 32 OF SHORT PLATS,
PAGE 30, UNDER CLALLAM COUNTY RECORDING NO. 20061189017, BEING A PORTION OF THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF THE NORTHEAST
QUARTER OF SECTION 10, TOWNSHIP 30 NORTH, RANGE 7 WEST,
W. M . , C L A L L A M C O U N T Y, WA S H I N G TO N . S I T UAT E I N C L A L L A M
COUNTY, STATE OF WASHINGTON, commonly known as 243 Carly Jo
Lane, Port Angeles, Washington, which is subject to that certain Deed of Trust
dated March 23, 2007, recorded March 26, 2007, under Auditorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s File Number
2007-1198492, records of Clallam County, Washington, from JOEL ROBERSON and SANDRA M. ROBERSON, husband and wife, Grantors, to CLALLAM TITLE COMPANY, as Trustee, to secure an obligation in favor of FIRST
FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION OF PORT ANGELES as
Beneficiary. II. No action commenced by the Beneficiary of the Deed of Trust
or the Beneficiaryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s successor is now pending to seek satisfaction of the obligation in any court by reason of the Borrowerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s or Grantorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s default on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust. III. The defaults for which this foreclosure is made are as follows: Failure to pay when due the following amounts
which are now in arrears: Failure to pay monthly payment in the amount of
$1,084.84 for the month of March 2012: $1,084.84; Failure to pay 7 monthly
payments of $1,217.73 each for the months of April through October 2012, inclusive: $8,524.11; Failure to pay late charge of $54.24 for the month of March
2012: $54.24; Failure to pay 6 late charges of $60.89 each for the months of
April through September 2012, inclusive: $365.34; Failure to pay deferred late
charges: $1,307.67; TOTAL MONTHLY PAYMENTS, LATE CHARGES &
OTHER ARREARAGES: $11,336.20. IV. The sum owing on the obligation
secured by the Deed of Trust is: Principal of $263,300.35, together with interest as provided in the note or other instrument secured from the 1st day of
February, 2012, and such other costs and fees as are due under the note or
other instrument secured, and as are provided by statute. V. The above described real property will be sold to satisfy the expense of sale and the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust as provided by statute. The sale will be
made without warranty, express or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances on the 11th day of January, 2013. The defaults referred to in
paragraph III must be cured by the 31st day of December, 2012 (11 days before the sale date), to cause a discontinuance of the sale. The sale will be discontinued and terminated if at any time on or before the 31st day of December, 2012 (11 days before the sale date), the defaults as set forth in paragraph
III are cured and the Trusteeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fees and costs are paid. The sale may be terminated any time after the 31st day of December, 2012 (11 days before the
sale date), and before the sale by the Borrower, the Grantor or the Grantorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
successor(s) in interest, any guarantor, or the holder of any recorded junior
lien or encumbrance paying the entire principal and interest secured by the
Deed of Trust, plus costs, fees, and advances, if any, made pursuant to the
terms of the obligation and/or Deed of Trust, and curing all other defaults. VI.
A written Notice of Default was transmitted by the Beneficiary or Trustee to the
Borrower and Grantor or the Grantorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s successor(s) in interest at the following
addresses: Joel Roberson and Sandra M. Roberson, 243 Carly Jo Lane, Port
Angeles, WA 98363; Joel Roberson and Sandra M. Roberson, 208 Ashley
Lane, Port Angeles, WA 98363; Joel Roberson and Sandra M. Roberson, P.O.
Box 2670, Port Angeles, WA 98362-0331; Resident(s) of Property Subject to
Foreclosure Sale, 243 Carly Jo Lane, Port Angeles, WA 98363; by both first
class and certified mail on the 20th day of July, 2012, proof of which is in the
possession of the Trustee. A written Notice of Default was also posted in a
conspicuous place on the premises located at 243 Carly Jo Lane, Port Angeles, Clallam County, Washington, on the 20th day of July, 2012, and the
Trustee has possession of proof of such posting. VII. The Trustee whose
name and address are set forth below will provide in writing to anyone requesting it, a statement of all costs and fees due at any time prior to the sale. VIII.
The effect of the sale will be to deprive the Grantor and all those who hold by,
through or under the Grantor of all their interest in the above described property. IX. Anyone having any objection to the sale on any grounds whatsoever
will be afforded an opportunity to be heard as to those objections if they bring
a lawsuit to restrain the sale pursuant to RCW 61.24.130. Failure to bring
such a lawsuit may result in a waiver of any proper grounds for invalidating the
Trusteeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sale. X. NOTICE TO OCCUPANTS OR TENANTS. The purchaser
at the Trusteeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sale is entitled to possession of the property on the 20th day
following the sale, as against the Grantor under the Deed of Trust (the owner)
and anyone having an interest junior to the Deed of Trust, including occupants
other than tenants. After the 20th day following the sale the purchaser has the
right to evict occupants other than tenants by summary proceedings under the
Unlawful Detainer Act, Chapter 59.12 RCW. Pursuant to the Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act of 2009, a tenant or subtenant in possession of the
property that is purchased at the trusteeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sale, under any bona fide lease entered into before the notice of foreclosure, has the right to occupy the property
until the end of the remaining term of the lease, except that the purchaser (or a
successor in interest) who will occupy the property as a primary residence may
terminate the lease by giving written notice to the tenant at least ninety (90)
days before the effective date of such notice. The purchaser (or a successor
in interest) may give a written notice to a tenant to vacate the property at least
ninety (90) days before the effective date of such notice to a bona fide monthto-month tenant or subtenant in possession of the property, or a tenant or subtenant in possession of the property without a bona fide lease. A lease or tenancy shall be considered bona fide only if: (1) the tenant is not the mortgagor/grantor or the child, spouse, or parent of the mortgagor/grantor under the
foreclosed contract/Deed of Trust; (2) the lease or tenancy was the result of an
arms-length transaction; and (3) the lease or tenancy requires the receipt of
rent that is not substantially less than fair market rent for the property or the
rent is reduced or subsidized due to a Federal, State, or local subsidy. DATED this 5th day of October, 2012 PLATT IRWIN LAW FIRM, TRUSTEE, By:
Gary R. Colley, 403 South Peabody, Port Angeles, WA 98362, (360) 4573327.
Pub: Dec. 12, 2012, Jan. 2, 2013
Legal No. 442930

Evergreen Farm Way, will
host a holiday open house
from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Thursday.
Guests can hear Christmas music from pianist
Linda Robinson, see the
lodge’s decorated Christmas trees, sample desserts,

receive a Christmas rose
and take apartment and
cottage tours.
Those who bring a donation for the Sequim Food
Bank will be entered to
win a holiday gift basket.
For more information,
phone 360-681-3100.

Kids Create allows children to gain hands-on
knowledge and experience
with various media and
will continue the third Saturday of the month from
2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
The series is recommended for children 7 to 12

years of age, is limited to
25 attendees and requires
advance registration.
The library is located at
2210 S. Peabody St.
To register, phone 360417-8500, ext. 7732, or
email youth@nols.org.
Peninsula Daily News